The Secret History of the Mongols (2 vols)
A Mongolian Epic Chronicle of the Thirteenth Century
Translated with a Historical and Philological Commentary by Igor de Rachewiltz
Biographical note
Igor De Rachewiltz, Ph.D. (1961) in Chinese History, The Australian National University, has published extensively on the political and cultural history of China and Mongolia in the 12th-14th centuries, and on Sino-Mongolian philology. He is at present an Emeritus Fellow in the Pacific and Asian History Division of the ANU.
Readership
Historians of China and Central Asia in the 12th-13th centuries, Sino-Mongolists, Altaic philologists and anyone interested in the literature and folklore of nomadic peoples.
Reviews
'…de Rachewiltz sweeps the board in a most convincing way.'
D.O. Morgan, Social Anthropology, 2005.
D.O. Morgan, Social Anthropology, 2005.
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