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1 online resource |
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Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Contents; List of Maps; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; ''So What?''; Mongol Empire; Early Ming Court; Eurasia; A Final Word: Uncertainty; Organization of the Book; Part I The Wider Historical Context; 1 Eurasia after the Fall; The Mongolian Diaspora; Stories of the Mongols; Moghul Khanate or Ulus-i Moghul; Concluding Comments; 2 Daidu's Fall; Introduction; Debate about the Great Yuan's Fate after 1368; Source Problems; The Chinggisid Family; A Political Narrative of the Great Yuan Court: 1368-1398 |
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Darkest HourA New Great Khan: Ayushiridara; 3 Changing Fortunes; Waning Fortunes; Great Yuan Rulership and Great Ming Patronage; The Cost of Allegience; Conclusions; 4 Black City; Qara-Qoto under Mongol Rule; Great Yuan Regional Governance after Daidu's Fall; Control of Qara-Qoto and the Hexi Corridor; Thinning Traces of Great Yuan Regional Governance; Conclusion; Part II The Chinggisid Narrative at Home; 5 Telling Stories and Selling Rulership; Introduction; The Ming Court and Its Chinggisid Narrative; Control of the Chinggisid Past; Audience; Expired Fortune; The End of Mongol Fortune |
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Native RevivalJustifying Rebellion; Marginality; Edges of the Chinggisid Narrative; The Inner Circle; Conclusion; 6 A Precarious Tale: War, Military Men, and Court Politics; Justification of War with the Great Yuan; War with the Great Yuan; Depictions of War with the Mongols; Political Theater; Conclusion; Part III A Tough Crowd; 7 Letters to the Great Khan; Introduction; Writing to the Yuan Ruling House; Writing to Toghan-Temür; Ayushiridara; The Ming Court's Response to Ayushiridara's Death; Toghus-Temür; Conclusion; 8 South of the Clouds; Introduction; Mongol Rule in Yunnan |
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Great Yuan Regional Governance after Daidu's FallThe Early Ming Court's Chinggisid Narrative in Yunnan; Post-Conquest; 9 The Chinggisid Fold; Introduction; Great Yuan Commanders; The Futility of Resistance; The Timurid and Moghul Courts; Moghul; Part IV East Asia; 10 Eastern Neighbors; Land of Rites and Righteousness and Chinggisid In-Law Kingdom: Koryŏ; Japan; Continental Relations; Late Fourteenth-Century Japan; Looking Beyond the Sino-Barbarian Divide; The Great Việt (Đại Việt); Conclusion; Conclusion; Works Cited; Index |
| Summary |
During the thirteenth century, the Mongols created the greatest empire in human history. Genghis Khan and his successors brought death and destruction to Eurasia. They obliterated infrastructure, devastated cities, and exterminated peoples. They also created courts in China, Persia, and southern Russia, famed throughout the world as centers of wealth, learning, power, religion, and lavish spectacle. The great Mongol houses established standards by which future rulers in Eurasia would measure themselves for centuries. In this ambitious study, David M. Robinson traces how in the late fourteenth century the newly established Ming dynasty (1368-1644) in China crafted a narrative of the fallen Mongol empire. To shape the perceptions and actions of audiences at home and abroad, the Ming court tailored its narrative of the Mongols to prove that it was the rightful successor to the Mongol empire. This is a story of how politicians exploit historical memory for their own gain |
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Global history. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93047524
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Mongols.
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History.
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National characteristics, Mongolian.
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history (discipline)
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National characteristics, Mongolian.
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History.
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Mongols.
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China -- History -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024072
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East Asia -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92006029
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China.
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East Asia.
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History.
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Electronic book
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