The Secret History of the Mongol Queens - Jack Weatherford [147]
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“They marry by succession their stepmothers” Henry Serruys, The Mongols and Ming China: Customs and History (London: Variourum Reprints, 1987).
“The houses of the Tartars” Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910).
female in-law had a senior position Lawrence Krader, Social Organization of the Mongol-Turkic Pastoral Nomads (Blooming-ton: Indiana University Press, 1963).
Ismayil confronted the Great Khan Erdeni-yin Tobci.
“I myself am not in good health … the khan became enraged” Charles Bawden, trans., The Mongol Chronicle Altan Tobŭi (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1955), § 98.
Jamuka Igor de Rachewiltz, trans., The Secret History of the Mongols (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2004), § 201.
“Have I enmity towards your kin?” Altan Tobŭi, § 98.
the prince began to style himself as the Great Khan Chinese reports assert that Bayan Mongke claimed the title of Bayan Mongke Khan this time rather than Bolkhu Jinong, but few people recognized the young man’s change of title. According to the Erdeni-yin Tobci, he held the title for two years, but Mongolian lists of Great Khans rarely include his name.
that he might escape Altan Tobŭi, §§ 99–100.
“I will not go to you” … “the right to speak to me this way” Altan Tobŭi, § 102.
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sickness Charles Bawden, trans., The Mongol Chronicle Altan Tobŭi (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1955), § 101; hunchback-like growth: Erdeni-yin Tobci.
“there was suffering” Johan Elverskog, The Jewel Translucent Sutra: Altan Khan and the Mongols in the Sixteenth Century (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2003), lines 45–48.
“O God! O Sky! O Earth!” Rashid al-Din, Rashiduddin Fazullah’s Jami’u’t-Tawarikh: Compendium of Chronicles, translated by W. M. Thackson (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Department of Eastern Languages and Civilizations, 1998).
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“Queen Manduhai the Good” Charles Bawden, trans., The Mongol Chronicle Altan Tobŭi (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1955), § 101.
“The Queen has no helmet” Ibid., § 102.
“When it was wet” Igor de Rachewiltz, trans., The Secret History of the Mongols (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2004), § 214.
“protected her jewel-like son” Johan Elverskog, The Jewel Translucent Sutra: Altan Khan and the Mongols in the Sixteenth Century (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2003), lines 45–64.
They sometimes imported horses Denis Twitchett and Tilemann Grimm, “The Cheng-t’ung, Ching t’ai, and T’ien-shun Reigns, 1436–1464,” in The Cambridge History of China, vol. 7, The Ming Dynasty, 1368–1644, Part I, edited by Frederick W. Mote and Denis Twitchett (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988).
The instability of the horse trade Morris Rossabi, “The Ming and Inner Asia,” in ibid., Part II–55.
True civilization for the Chinese Hidehiro Okada, “China as a Successor State to the Mongol Empire,” in The Mongol Empire and Its Legacy, edited by Reuven Amitai-Preiss and David O. Morgan (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 1999).
five types of bait Ying-shih Yü, Trade and Expansion in Han China (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1967).
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Wang Yue proposed Alastair Iain Johnston, Cultural Realism: Strategic Culture and Grand Strategy in Chinese History (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995).
“to dare to penetrate” Ibid.
“I braved the snow” Yuan-Chu Lam, “Memoir on the Campaign Against Turfan: An Annotated Translation of Hsü Chin’s P’ing-fan shih-mo written in 1503,” Journal of Asian History 42 (1990): 159.
“When the unfortunate Mongols” Dimitrii Pokotilov, History of the Eastern Mongols During the Ming Dynasty from 1368–1634, translated by Rudolf Leowenthal (Chengtu: Chinese Cultural Studies Research Institute, West China Union University, 1947).
he sighed in regret Denis Twitchett and Frederick W. Mote, eds., The Cambridge History of China, vol. 7, The Ming Dynasty, 1368–1644, Part I (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988).
pornography Ibid.
“thirsty for its tastiness” The butter soup