How Mongolia Matters: War, Law, and Society

212 Pages·2017·4.519 MB·English

by  Morris Rossabi

How Mongolia Matters: War, Law, and Society
Brill’s Inner Asian Library
Edited by
Michael R. Drompp
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Volume 36
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How Mongolia Matters:
War, Law, and Society
Edited by
Morris Rossabi
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Cover illustration: Portrait of Chinggis Khan. Calendar from Blue Banner Publishers (Tsutsumi 2012).
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Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Contributors  x
Introduction: Myths about Mongols and Inner Asians 1
Morris Rossabi
1 Sagang Sechen on the Tumu Incident 6
Johan Elverskog
2 What did the Qianlong Court Mean by huairou yuanren 怀柔远人?
An Examination of Manchu, Mongol and Tibetan Translations
of the Term as it Appears in Chengde Steles, as a Defense of
“New Qing History” 19
James Millward
3 Jochi and the Early Western Campaigns 35
Christopher Atwood
4 Iran’s Mongol Experience 57
David Morgan
5 Qipchak Networks of Power in Mongol China 69
Michael Brose
6 “How the Mongols Mattered: A Perspective from Law” 87
Bettine Birge
7 Celebrating War with the Mongols 105
David M. Robinson
8 Flank Contact, Social Contexts, and Riding Patterns in Eurasia,
500–1500 129
Pamela Kyle Crossley
9 Modern Origins of Chinggis Khan Worship: The Mongolian Response to
Japanese Influences 147
Yuki Konagaya
viii CONTENTS
10 Mongolia: Addressing the Risks and Promises of the Nuclear Age 165
Enkhsaikhan Jargalsaikhan
Bibliography 181
Index 195
List of Illustrations
5.1 Baya’ut Qipchaks in China 76
5.2 Jiqing population figures, 1303 CE 78
5.3 Qipchak households in Jiqing Circuit by location 78
5.4 Jiqing Circuit honorary titles 80
5.5 El Temür’s political network 82
5.6 Qipchak clan marriages 83
5.7 Qipchak daughters 84
8.1 Early Eurasian riding 142
8.2 Roman adaptation of standard Eurasian style for mounted infantry 143
8.3 Later Han period Chinese adaptation of standard Eurasian style for
mounted infantry 143
8.4 Mamluk adaptation of standard Eurasian style, for mêlée fighting from
horseback 144
8.5 Early representation of emerging East Asian style of closed-flank riding
by mounted archers 144
8.6 Kitan adaptation of East Asian style 145
8.7 Tenth and eleventh-century Chinese adaptation of East Asian covered
flank riding 145
8.8 Mongol adaptation of East Asian covered flank riding for use by
mounted archers 146
9.1 Portrait of Chinggis Khan 156
9.2 Portrait of Chinggis Khan 157
9.3 Portrait of Chinggis Khan 158
9.4 Calendar from Blue Banner Publishers 159
9.5 Portrait of Chinggis Khan 160
9.6 The two songs entitled “Father Chinggis” 161
9.7 The melody line of the Japanese martial song, “A Fellow Soldier” 162
9.8 The lyrics of the song “Bogd Chinggis Khan” 163
9.9 The score for the song “The Launch of Chinggis Khan” 164
Contributors
Christopher Atwood
(Ph.D. Indiana University) is Professor of Mongol History at the University of
Pennsylvania and has written Young Mongols and Vigilantes in Inner Mongolia’s
Interregnum Decades (Brill) and Encyclopedia of Mongolia and the Mongol
Empire (Facts on File).
Bettine Birge
(Ph.D. Columbia University) is Associate Professor of East Asian Languages
and Civilizations at the University of Southern California and is the author
of Women, Property, and Confucian Reaction in Sung and Yuan China, 960–1368
(Cambridge University Press) and a forthcoming book on Yuan law to be pub-
lished by Harvard University Press.
Michael Brose
(Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania) is Professor of History at the University of
Wyoming and author of Subjects and Masters: Uyghurs in the Mongol Empire
(Western Washington University Center for East Asian Studies).
Pamela Crossley
(Ph.D. Yale University) is Professor of History at Dartmouth College and has
written A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology
(University of California Press) and The Manchus (Blackwell).
Johan Elverskog
(Ph.D. Indiana University) is Professor of Religion at Southern Methodist
University and author of Our Great Qing (University of Hawaii Press) and
Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road (University of Pennsylvania Press).
Jargalsaikhan Enkhsaikhan,
an attorney specializing in international law, was formerly Mongolian
Ambassador to Austria and Ambassador to the United Nations and focused on
developing nuclear-free zones during his tenure as Ambassador.