...Ruth W. Dunnell In Search of Genghis Khan . Produced by Tim Severin . Princeton, N. J. : Films for the Humanities and Sciences , 1993 . VHS format. 54 minutes. $149.99; rental $75.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 FILM AND VIDEO REVIEWS 1343 parties...

...Morris Rossabi Genghis Khan: Conqueror of the World . By Leo De Hartog . New York : I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd. , 1999 . 230 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 525 questionable translations (and the resulting far-fetched...

...Peter Jackson Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire . Edited by William W. Fitzhugh , Morris Rossabi , and William Honeychurch . Santa Barbara, Calif. : Perpetua Press , 2009 . 317 pp. $40.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011...

...Christiane Gruber The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia, 1256–1353 . Edited by Linda Komaroff , Stefano Carboni and the METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART . New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art , 2002 . distributed by New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press...

... Mongolian companions' rediscovery of Genghis Khan as much as his own investigation of the medieval conqueror. In addition to Severin and his cameraman, the party included Mongol artists, interpreter, and local herdsmen for guides. They set out from a lake 200 miles northeast of Ulan Bator, where Genghis...

... on using this out-of-date, derogatory term for the Arabs), Ottoman Turks, Mongols, and British. The narrative is devoid of historical context or analysis, interrupted by statements such as the Moor conquerors and the Ottoman Turks did not bring forward men who could be compared with Genghis Khan...

... alike. This book joins two other works by Hartog, Europese reizigers naar de Grote Khan. De reizen van de franciscaner monniken en defamilie Polo naar de opvolgers van Genghis Khan (Baarn, 1985); and Genghis Khan, Conqueror of the World (London and New York, 1989), which were written in the 1980s...

.... Galstiana. [Otvetstvennyi redaktor S. D. Dylykov] Moskva, Izd-vo vostochnol lit-ry, 1962. 153 p. facisms. MACKENZIE, FRANKLIN. The ocean and the steppe; the life and times of the Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan, 1155-1227. New York, Vantage Press [1963] ix, 357 p. SCHULTE-UFFELAGE, HELMUT. Das Keng-shen wai...

... Polo naar de opvolgers van Genghis Khan (Baarn, 1985); and Genghis Khan, Conqueror of the World (London and New York, 1989), which were written in the 1980s and focused respectively on the Western European view of the Mongol invasion and the rise of the Chinggisid Empire. At the beginning we find...

... is interested in the traditional Chinese family or vernacular literature. W I L T L. IDEMA Harvard University Genghis Khan: Conqueror of the World. By LEO DE H A R T O G . New York: I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 1999. 230 pp. Prior to an appraisal of Mr. de Hartog's book, Paul Ratchnevsky's book CinggisKhan, sein...

...-yin Tobci) A history of the Eastern Mongols to 1662. Part one: Chapters one through five, from the creation of the world to the death of Genghis Khan (1227). Newly translated from the original Mongolian. 2d ed. Bloomington, Ind., Mon- golia Society, 1967. 89 p. (Mongolia Society. Occasional papers...

... modern world. The pinnacle—or nadir (depending on whom you ask)—of such work was no doubt Jack Weatherford's 2004 New York Times bestseller Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (New York: Crown). But then the discussion quickly turns to what the Romans had actually given Palestine. Reg...

... cultural myth of the “Yellow Peril” portrays a doomsday image of Mongoloid hordes invading the West, commanded by their tyrannical leaders, real or fictional, the ilk of Genghis Khan and Fu Manchu. The historical irony that the Mongols now recycle the term for their own benefit is not lost on Billé, whose...

... behind some of the most visible archeological remains in Inner Mongolia. After the expulsion of the Mongols from China, the Öngüt are last seen around 1490 as the family of Mandukhai, the empress who, with her child-groom Dayan Khan, reestablished the supremacy of Chinggis (Genghis) Khan's line...

... of Chinggis Khan [Genghis Khan] or the Chinggisid dynasty). Allsen also describes methods of pearl display and distribution; the often magical meanings ascribed to pearls; and the legacy of pearl consumption in post-Mongol states. As far as the Mongols are concerned, Allsen investigates pearls...

... years, well before the bubble. CHIKAKO USUI University of Missouri-St. Louis In Search of Genghis Khan. Produced by TIM S E v E R i N . Pri nceton, N. J.: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1993- VHS format. 54 minutes. $149-99; rental $75.00. As a graduate student at Oxford in the 1960s, Tim...

... Genghis Khan to Tamerlane," completes the story of the Nestorian church in Asia. (It also discusses the first Roman Catholic missions to Asia.) Despite the possibilities for growth and expansion under the relatively tolerant Mongols and their continent-wide trade routes, by the end of the fifteenth...

... 11). After the Mongolian democratic revolution in 1990, contestations against vestiges of control are emerging due to new ethnic pride and a greater freedom to make individual choices: Genghis Khan, Buddhism, pop music, female singing stars, and throat-singing {hob'mii) are popular today...

...-1252), a brilliant, intellectual monk from the aristocratic Khon family of west-central Tibet (gTsang), who spent the last five years of his life as preceptor (chos gnas) to the Mongol prince, Kodon (the grandson of Genghis Khan). Together they initiated the chos gnas-yon bdag (preceptor-patron) model...

... will become open and that the author will be able to answer some of the questions that today, unfortunately, she must leave as blank spots. WILLIAM FIERMAN Indiana University The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia, 1256 1353. Edited by LINDA KOMAROFF, STEFANO CARBONI...