Yueban , also written
Üeban,
Urpen literally: "Weak
Xiongnu") was the name used by Chinese historians for remnants of the Xiongnu in
Zhetysu, now part of modern-day
Kazakhstan. In Chinese literature they commonly called Yueban. The Yuebans gained their own visibility after disintegration of the Eastern Xiongnu state, because unlike the main body of the Northern Xiongnu, who escaped from the Chinese sphere of knowledge, the Yueban tribes remained closer to China.