The end of the Yuan rule in China came "by expulsion and not by absorption."
For the Chinese, the most important factor was peasant unrest caused by the over-taxation, corvee, unsuccessful military campaigns and insecurity.
However, many scholars argue that the Mongols in the Yuan dynasty never lost their cultural identity. Some even believe that the Mongols were not interested in the sophistication of Chinese culture, and that therefore Chinese culture did not strongly influence the Mongols