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In the service of the Khan. Eminent personalities of the early Mongol-Yüan period (1200–1300). Edited By Igor de Rachewiltz, Hok-Lam Chan, Ch'i-Ch'ing Hsiao and Peter W. Geier with the assistance of May Wang. (Asiatische Forschungen, 121.) pp.xliv, 808. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag, 1993. DM 168.
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1 For a discussion of the translation of yeke Mongol ulus, see: de Rachewiltz, Igor, “Qan, Qa'an and the seal of Guyug” in Documenta Barbarorum. Festschrift für Walther Heissig zum yo. Geburtstag (Wiesbaden, 1983), pp. 274–5Google Scholar. De Rachewiltz discusses this question further in “The Mongols rethink their early history” -to be published in Rivista degli Studi Orientali, no. 44 - and in “Some reflections on Činggis Qan's ĵasay”, East Asian History, VI (1993), pp. 91–104.Google Scholar
2 In the Service, p. 171.Google Scholar
3 In the Service, Explanatory Notes, p. xii.Google Scholar
4 Even the editors of In the Service found it necessary at times “to balance the Yüan material with Sung, Chin and Ming sources” - also with Mongolian, Persian, Tibetan and European sources. Introduction, p. xvi.
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