"In the thirteenth century the Mongols created a vast transcontinental empire that functioned as a cultural "clearing house" for the Old World. Under Mongol auspices various commodities, ideologies, and technologies were disseminated and displayed across Eurasia. The focus of this path-breaking study is the extensive exchanges between Iran and China. The Mongol rulers of these two ancient civilizations "shared" the cultural resources of their realms with one another. The result was lively traffic in specialist personnel and scholarly literature between East and West. These exchanges ranged from cartography to printing, and from agriculture to astronomy. Unexpectedly, the principal conduit of this transmission was an obscure Mongol tribesman, Bolad Aqa, who first served Chinggisid rulers of China and was then posted to Iran where he entered into a close and productive collaboration with the famed Persian statesman and historian. Rashid al-Din. The conclusion of the work examines why the Mongols made such heavy use of sedentary scholars and specialists in the elaboration of their court culture and why they initiated so many exchanges across Eurasia. The book is informative and erudite. It crosses new scholarly boundaries in its analysis of communication and culture in the Mongol Empire and promises to become a classic in the field."--Jacket.

Local access dig.pdf. [Allsen-Mongol Eurasia.pdf]
Also online via Gleeson Library.

L'Empire jaune de Genghis-Khan / Joachim Barckhausen ; Préface et traduction du Dr George Montandon.
Translation of: Das gelbe Weltreich : Lebensgeschichte einer Macht.
"Ex Libris Alphonse Maillet, Shanghai, mars 1940” [collection uniformly bound in reddish brown boards].

Contents: I. The high plateaus of Asia until the thirteenth century: 1. Early history of the Steppes : Scythians and Huns: The antiquity of Steppe civilization. The Scythians. Scythian art. The Sarmatians and Western Siberia. Pre-Turkic cultures of the Altai. Origins of the Hsiung-nu. Hunnic art. The first thrust of the Hsiung-nu and the migration of the Yüeh-chih. The repercussions of the first victories of the Huns : collapse of Greek domination in Afghanistan. Conflicts between the Hsiung-nu and the early Han : split with the western Hsiung-nu. Conflicts between China and the Hsiung-nu during the period of the Later Han Dynasty : split with the southern Hsiung-nu. The Silk Road. Pan Ch’ao's conquest of the Tarim Basin. Civilization of the Tarim oases at the end of antiquity and the beginning of the Middle Ages. Supplanting the northern Hsiung-nu by the Hsien-pi in the Empire of Mongolia. The great invasions of the fourth century : North China conquered by the Hsiung-nu and the Hsien-pi. The kingdom of the Tabgatch Turks, or Toba, and the Mongol khanate of the Juan-juan. The last Minusinsk culture. The Ephthalite Huns. The Huns in Europe : Atyila ; 2. The Early Middle Ages : T’u-chüeh, Uigur, and Khitan: The empire of the T’u-chüeh. Partition of the T’u-chüeh Empire. The destruction of the khanate of the eastern T’u-chüeh by Emperor T’ai-tsung. Dissolution of the khanate of the western T’u-chüeh. The Indo-European oases of the Tarim at the accession of the T’ang Dynasty. The establishment of the T’ang Protectorate in the Tarim Basin. T’ang China, lord of Central Asia. The last balze of T’u-chüeh power : Mo-ch’o Khagan. Kul-tegin and Mo-ki-lien. Destruction of the empire of the eastern T’u-chüeh : rise of the Uigur Empire. The peak of T’ang power : the subjection of western Turkestan. Chinese and Arab rivalry west of the Pamirs. The Chinese in the Pamirs, 747-750. The collapse of T’ang domination in Central Asia. The Uigur Turkic empire. The Sha-t’o Turks. The Khitan. The Jurchid ; 3. The Turks and Islam to the thirteenth century: The Iranian barrier against the Turkic world in the tenth century : the Samanids. The Turkicizing of Kashgaria and Transoxiana : the Karakhanids. Role of the Seljuks in Turkish history. Sultan Sanjar and the Watch on the Oxus. The Kara-Khitai Empire. The Khwarizmian Empire ; 4. The Russian Steppe from the sixth to the thirteenth centuries: The Avars. Bulgars and Magyars. The Khazars. Petchenegs and Kipchaks

II. The Jenghiz-khanite Mongols: 5. Jenghiz Khan: Mongolia in the twelfth century. First attempts at unity among the Mongols. The youth of Jenghiz Khan. Jenghiz Khan, vassal of the Kerayit. Breach with the Wang-khan : conquest of the Kerayit country. Conquest of the Naiman country : unification of Mongolia. Jenghiz Khan : Emperor. The new Mongol Empire : state and army. Conquest of northern China. Mongol conquest of the old Kara-Khitai Empire. Destruction of the Khwarizmian Empire. Raid by Jebe and Sübötäi into Persia and Russia. The last years of Jenghiz Khan. Jenghiz Khan : his character and achievements ; 6. The three immediate successors to Jenghiz Khan: Distribution of appanages among Jenghiz Khan's sons. The reign of Ogödäi (1229-41). Destruction of the Kin Realm by the Mongols. Conquest of western Persia by the Mongols. Batu's and Sübötäi's campaigns in Europe. Törägänä's regency (1242-46). Güyük's reign (1246-48). Regency of Oghul Qaimish. Mongka's reign (1251-59). Rubruck's journey. Monka's war against the Sung Empire ; 7. Kublai and the Mongol Dynasty of China: Rivalry between Kublai and Ariq-bögä. Conquest of the Sung Empire. Wars in Japan, Indochina, and Java. Struggle with Qaidu. Kublai's government : Mongol and Chinese policy. Religious policy of Kublai and his successors : Buddhism. Religious policy of Kublai and his successors : Nestorianism. Marco Polo's journey. Economic prosperity in China under Mongol rule. Catholicism in China under the Mongol Dynasty. The last of the Kublai line and the expulsion of the Mongols from China ; 8. Turkestan under the House of Jagatai: The Jagatai Khanate : origins and general characteristics. Alghu;s reign : Jagataite attempt at independence. The Khanate of Jagatai under Qaidu's suzerainty. The Khanate of Jagatai at its zenith : Duwa, Esen-buqa, and Kebek. Schism in the Khanate of Jagatai : Transoxiana and Mogholistan. Transoxiana under the rule of Emir Qazghan. Tughluq Timur : reintegration of Jagatai ; 9. Mongol Persia and the House of Hulägu: The Mongol regime in Persia until the coming of Hulägu : Chomaghan, Baiju, and Eljigidäi. The Mongol regime in Persia to the arrival of Hulägu : Körgüz and Arghun Agha. Hulägu's reign : destruction of the Assassins, conquest of Baghdad, and annihilation of the Caliphate. Hulägu sympathy with Christianity. Expedition of Hulägu to Syria. Hulägu's last years. Abaqa's reign. Arghun's reign. Rabban Sauma's embassy to the West. The reigns of Gaikhatu and Baidu. Ghazan's reign. Oljaitu's reign. Abu Sa’id's reign. Dissolution of the Mongol Khanate of Persia ; 10. The Khanate of Kipchak: Jöchi and his sons : the Golden Horde, the White Horde, and the Ulus of Shayban. Batu and Berke. Nogai and Toqtai. Özbeg and Janibeg. Mamai and Toqtamish ; 11. Tamerlane: The Kingdom of Transoxiana delivered from the Mongols by Tamerlane. Duel of Tamerlane and Mir Husain. Ruler of Transoxiana and the Timurid Empire. Conquest of Khwarizim. Expeditions to Mogholistan and Uiguria. Conquest of eastern Iran. Conquest of western Iran. Tamerlane and Kipchak. Expedition to India. Tamerlane and the mamelukes. Tamerlane and the Ottoman Empire. The conquest of China. The Tamerlane succession : Shah Eukh's reign. Abu Sa’id. The last Timurids

III. The last Mongols: 12. The Mongols of Russia: The end of the Golden Horde. The khanates of the Crimea, Astrakhan, and Kazan ; 13. The Shaybanids: From Shayban to Abu’l Khair. Muhammad Shaybani and the Shaybanid Khanate of Transoxiana. The Khanate of Bukhara under the Astrakhanids and Mangits, The Khanate of Khiva. The Khanate of Kokand. The Shaybanids of Siberia ; 14. The last Jagataites: Resurgence of Mogholistan after Tamerlane : Vais-khan and Esen-bugha. Yunus and the Jagataite revenge upon the House of Tamerlane. The Jagataites thrown back east of the T’ein Shan Range : influence of the Timurid Renaissance in Kashgaria : the historian Haidar-Mirza. The last Jagataites. The Khojas of Kashgaria ; 15. The last empires of Mongolia from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century: Anarchy in Mongolia after 1370. The first Oirat Empire : Toghan and Esen-taiji. The last Jenghiz-khanite restoration : Dayan-khan and Altan-khan. Partition of the Dayanid Empire : the Ordos and Khalka khanates. Conversion of the eastern Mongols to Lamaism. Conquest of China by the Manchus. The western Mongols in the seventeenth century. Movements of peoples among the western Mongols : the Kalmuck migration. The Khoshot Khanate of Tsaidam and the Koko Nor, Protector of the Tibetan Church. The Dzungar kingdom under the Choros Dynasty : Ba’atur-khongtaiji's reign. Galdan's reign (1676-97) : foundation of the Dzungar Empire. The Dzungar Empire under Tsewang Rabdan (1697-1727). Galdan Tsereng's reign (1727-45). Dawaji and Amursana : annexation of Dzungaria by the Manchu Empire. The unfulfilled destiny of the western Mongols. Annexation of Kashgaria by the Manchu Empire.

Translation of: Empire des steppes.
Title: Empire des steppes.

Genghis Khan / Peter Brent.
Includes index.
"The rise, authority and decline of Mongol power”--jacket subtitle.
***Graphic resource.

Histoire générale des Huns, des Turcs, des Mogols, et des autres Tartares occidentaux, &c. avant et depuis Jésus-Christ jusqu'à présent : précédée d'une introduction contenant des tables chronol. & historiques des princes qui ont regné dans l'Asie / Ouvrage tiré des livres chinois, & des manuscrits orientaux de la bibliothèque du roi. Par M. Deguignes ... Suite des Mémoires de l'Académie royale des inscriptions et belles-lettres.

Volume 1 is 2 parts, but volume 1-5 shown on bindings. (LIBRARY HAS VOL. 1 PART 2 ONLY)

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Signatures. Tome premier, partie premiere: a-n⁴ o² A-3M⁴ 3N². Tome premier, seconde partie: pi⁴ a-m⁴ A-3T⁴ 3V¹. Tome second: a⁴ A-2N⁴ 2O². Tome troisieme: a⁴ A-3X⁴ 3Y³. Tome quatrieme: a⁴ A-3S⁴ 3T³.
Complete pagination. Tome premier, partie premiere: cxviii, 471 pages. Tome premier seconde partie: 8, xcv, 522 pages. Tome second: viii, 292 pages. Tome troisieme: [2]. viii, 542 pages. Tome quatrieme: vii, [2], 517, [1] pages.

RI copy has stamp on T.P.: "Procure des Lazaristes Chang-Hai"

Taibei edition info: Jianqiao Zhongguo shi / Denis Twitchett, John K. Fairbank zhubian ; Han Fuzhi zhuyi, Gao Mingshi zongjiaoding 劍橋中國史 / Denis Twitchett, John K. Fairbank 主編 ; 韓復智主譯 ; 高明士總校訂.

English ed. contents: The Liao / Denis Twitchett and Klaus-Peter Tietze -- The Hsi Hsia / Ruth Dunnel -- The Chin dynasty / Herbert Franke -- The rise of the Mongolian empire and Mongolian rule in north China / Thomas Allsen -- The reign of Khubilai khan / Morris Rossabi -- Mid-Yuan politics / Hsiao Ch'i-Ch'ing -- Shun-ti and the end of Yuan rule in China / John Dardess -- The Yuan government and society / Elizabeth Endicott-West -- Chinese society under Mongol rule, 1215-1368 / Frederick W. Mote. rule, 1949-1982.

A study of the Ming Shih Lu 明史錄 / S. Mano 間野潛龍 -- The mechanics of the Northern Defense System under the Ming / J. Tamura 田村實造 -- Development of the K'ai Chung Law (Kaizhongfa 開中法) / T. Terada 寺田隆信 -- Study of the Dayan Khan / J. Hagiwara 萩原淳平 -- Inquiry into the social structure of the Chien-chou (Jianzhou Nüzhen shehui 建州女真社會) Jurchens in Ming times / Y. Kawachi 河內良弘 -- A study of the Mukun-Tatan system / T. Mitamura 三田次村泰助 -- The Tibetan situation from the late Yuan to early Ming (Yuanmo Mingchu 元末明初) / H. Sato 佐藤長 -- A study of the Ch'i Chü Chu (Qijuzhu 起居注) of the last three Ming reigns / S. Imanishi 今西春秋.

I. Pei-lou fong-sou. Les coutumes des esclaves septentrionaux de Siao Ta-heng. II. Remains of Mongol customs in China during the early Ming Period. III. A note on arrows and oaths among the Mongols. IV. Oaths in the Qalqa Jirum. V. The Mongols in China: 1400-1450. VI. Foreigners in the Metropolitan police during the 15th century. VII. Two remarkable women in Mongolia: The Third Lady Erketu Qatun and Dayicing-beyiji.

Topics include: food and health at Mongol court, Dambijantsan, Chinqai, multilinuality in China under the Mongols, revised Buddhist canon, Tibetan-Mongol Regents, Daur Bear and the Boy myth, Yigu Episode, Kimak Empire, Huzhu Monguor Tu Pram, Mongol religion and politics, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Ji Hu, Shaanbei, Western Shanxi, shamanism, Siva Natarja, Ships, Liuqiu Islands Kingdoms, Okinawa, Kazakh phonology, inu & anu, Secret History, Xinjiang, Gong Zizhen "Western Regions"

The mission of Friar William of Rubruck : his journey to the court of the Great Khan Möngke, 1253-1255 / translated by Peter Jackson ; introduction, notes and appendices by Peter Jackson with David Morgan.
Translation of: Itinerarium. Spince title: The mission of William of Rubruck.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-301) and index.
"This translation is based on the critical edition of the Latin text by P. Anastasius Van den Wyngaert. O.F.M., which appeared in 1929"--p. 58.
Revision of: The journey of William of Rubruck to the eastern parts of the world, 1253-1255 / edited by William Woodville Rockhill. 1900 (Works issued by the Hakluyt Society : 2nd ser., no.4)