TY - BOOK ID - 74543947 TI - Eurasian influences on Yuan China AU - Rossabi, Morris AU - Institute of Southeast Asian Studies PY - 2013 SN - 9789814459723 9814459720 9789814459730 9814459739 PB - Singapore : ISEAS, DB - UniCat KW - China KW - Eurasia KW - Chine KW - Eurasie KW - Civilization KW - Foreign influences. KW - History KW - Civilization. KW - Histoire KW - Civilisation KW - Asia KW - Europe KW - Cina KW - Kinë KW - Cathay KW - Chinese National Government KW - Chung-kuo kuo min cheng fu KW - Republic of China (1912-1949) KW - Kuo min cheng fu (China : 1912-1949) KW - Chung-hua min kuo (1912-1949) KW - Kina (China) KW - National Government (1912-1949) KW - China (Republic : 1912-1949) KW - People's Republic of China KW - Chinese People's Republic KW - Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo KW - Central People's Government of Communist China KW - Chung yang jen min cheng fu KW - Chung-hua chung yang jen min kung ho kuo KW - Central Government of the People's Republic of China KW - Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo KW - Zhong hua ren min gong he guo KW - Kitaĭskai︠a︡ Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika KW - Činská lidová republika KW - RRT KW - Republik Rakjat Tiongkok KW - KNR KW - Kytaĭsʹka Narodna Respublika KW - Jumhūriyat al-Ṣīn al-Shaʻbīyah KW - RRC KW - Kitaĭ KW - Kínai Népköztársaság KW - Chūka Jinmin Kyōwakoku KW - Erets Sin KW - Sin KW - Sāthāranarat Prachāchon Čhīn KW - P.R. China KW - PR China KW - PRC KW - P.R.C. KW - Chung-kuo KW - Zhongguo KW - Zhonghuaminguo (1912-1949) KW - Zhong guo KW - République Populaire de Chine KW - República Popular China KW - Catay KW - VR China KW - VRChina KW - 中國 KW - 中国 KW - 中华人民共和国 KW - Jhongguó KW - Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaxu Dundadu Arad Ulus KW - Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaqu Dumdadu Arad Ulus KW - Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Dundad Ard Uls KW - BNKhAU KW - БНХАУ KW - Khi︠a︡tad KW - Kitad KW - Dumdadu Ulus KW - Dumdad Uls KW - Думдад Улс KW - Kitajska KW - China (Republic : 1949- ) KW - China--Civilization--960-1644. KW - China--Civilization--Foreign influences. KW - China--History--Yuan dynasty, 1260-1368. KW - Eurasia--Civilization. KW - HISTORY / Asia / China. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:74543947 AB - This book documents the extraordinarily significant transfers and cultural diffusion between the Mongol Yuan Dynasty of China and Central and West Asia, which had a broad impact on Eurasian history in the 13th and 14th centuries. The Yuan era witnessed perhaps the greatest inter-civilisational contacts in world history and has thus begun to attract the attention of both scholars and the general public. This volume offers tangible evidence of the Western and Central Asian influences, via the Mongols, on Chinese, and to a certain extent Korean, medicine, astronomy, navigation, and even foreign relations. Turkic peoples and other Muslims played particularly vital roles in such transmissions. These inter-civilisational relations led to the first precise Western knowledge of East and South Asia and stimulated Europeans to discover new routes to the East. The authors of these essays, specialists in their respective fields, shine a light on these vital exchanges, which anyone interested in the origins of global history will find fascinating. 'In this volume of wide-ranging essays, scholars from the United States, China and Europe present new insights into how the close relationship between Mongol China and Ilkhanid Persia, and the Mongol employment of Eurasians (many Muslims) of diverse origins, shaped Yuan politics, foreign trade, and culture (scientific knowledge, architecture, medicine), as well as the life of East Asia in the 13th to 14th centuries and beyond. Not surprisingly, in addressing the nature of cultural influence, and how it should or can be identified, measured, and assessed, these authors do not reach a consensus, but do shed light on issues of agency - Mongol, Chinese, and other - and in so doing offer up a wealth of fascinating detail about an era of broad interest to comparative historians of the premodern world as well as specialists on China.' - Ruth W. Dunnell, James P. Storer Professor of Asian History, Kenyon College 'A central aim of this volume is to stimulate scholarly interest in the Yuan Dynasty, the 'step-sister in the study of China.' By providing a fascinating array of articles - ranging from Muslim maritime semi-colonialism to Chinese resistance of Islamic architectural and astronomical innovation, juxtaposed with medical and cartographical exchanges from West to East, as well as the political influence of Qipčaq Turks in Beijing and neo-Confucian Uyghurs in Chosŏn Korea - it has thereby succeeded admirably.' - Johan Elverskog, Altshuler University Distinguished Professor, Southern Methodist University ER -