Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia: Generals, Merchants, and Intellectuals

356 Pages·2020·26.101 MB·English

by  Michal Biran (editor), Jonathan Brack (editor), Francesca Fiaschetti (editor)

Along the Silk Roads in
Mongol Eurasia
Generals, Merchants, Intellectuals
edited by
Michal Biran, Jonathan Brack,
and Francesca Fiaschetti
university of california press

The publisher and the University of California Press
Foundation gratefully acknowledge the generous support
of the Philip E. Lilienthal Imprint in Asian Studies,
established by a major gift from Sally Lilienthal.
Along the Silk Roads in
Mongol Eurasia

Along the Silk Roads in
Mongol Eurasia
Generals, Merchants, Intellectuals
edited by
Michal Biran, Jonathan Brack,
and Francesca Fiaschetti
university of california press
University of California Press
Oakland, California
© 2020 by Michal Biran, Jonathan Brack, and Francesca
Fiaschetti
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Biran, Michal, editor. | Brack, Jonathan, editor. |
Fiaschetti, Francesca, editor.
Title: Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia : generals,
merchants, and intellectuals / Michal Biran, Jonathan
Brack, Francesca Fiaschetti.
Description: Oakland, California : University of
California Press, [2020] | Includes bibliographical
references and index.
Identifiers: lccn 2019057899 (print) | lccn 2019057900
(ebook) | isbn 9780520298743 (cloth) | isbn
9780520298750 (paperback) | isbn 9780520970786
(ebook)
Subjects: lcsh: Intellectuals—Mongolia—13th
century—Biography. | Intellectuals—Mongolia—14th
century—Biography. | Mongols—History, Military—
13th century—Biography. | Mongols—History,
Military—14th century—Biography. | Merchants—
Mongolia—13th century—Biography. | Merchants—
Mongolia—14th century—Biography.
Classification: lcc ds798.66.a2 a46 2020 (print) |
lcc ds798.66.a2 (ebook) | ddc 950/.2—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019057899
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc
.gov/2019057900
Manufactured in the United States of America
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This volume is dedicated to the memory of
Thomas T. Allsen (1940–2019)

Contents
List of Illustrations xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Notes on Dates and Transliterations xv
Introduction 1
Michal Biran, Jonathan Brack, and Francesca Fiaschetti
part one. generals 25
1. Guo Kan: Military Exchanges between China and
the Middle East 27
Florence Hodous
2. Baiju: The Mongol Conqueror at the Crossfire of
Dynastic Struggle 44
Sara Nur Yıldız
3. Qutulun: The Warrior Princess of Mongol Central Asia 64
Michal Biran
4. Yang Tingbi: Mongol Expansion along the Maritime
Silk Roads 83
Masaki Mukai and Francesca Fiaschetti