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The Mongol Empire – the first ‘gunpowder empire’?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 August 2013

STEPHEN G. HAW
STEPHEN G. HAW*
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Abstract

This article uses Chinese sources to argue that a range of gunpowder weapons was already in use in China during the late tenth and early eleventh centuries, earlier than previously thought. ‘True firearms’, that is cannon or guns firing solid projectiles, had quite probably been developed by at least as early as 1200 ce.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , July 2013 , pp. 441 - 469
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This bibliography is in two main sections, the first further subdivided into two. This first section includes all those works consulted that are written in Chinese. It gives the Chinese characters of names of authors and editors, titles and publishers. In accordance with common usage, pre-modern works (written in Classical Chinese) are listed separately from modern Chinese works. The former are cited in the references by abbreviations derived from their titles. The date given in parenthesis after the author's name is that of first completion of the text. The date of publication of the edition consulted is given at the end of the citation. In a number of cases, more than one edition of the same work has been consulted. This has been noted only when it seemed useful to do so. Names of Chinese authors of modern works in Chinese are cited in full in the references. Those writing in English are cited by initials and surname only. The second section of this bibliography lists works in European and other languages.

1: Works in Chinese

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QJJ: Yun, Wang 王惲 (c. 1300) Qiu Jian Ji 秋澗集, in SKQS, CD 415, book no. 4561.Google Scholar
QSKS: Ruyu, Zhang 章如愚 (c. 1200) Qun Shu Kao Suo 群書考索, 2 vols, Yangzhou 揚州: Guangling Shushe 廣陵書社, 2008; also in SKQS, CD 325, book no. 3672.Google Scholar
QTYS: Yiqing, Liu 劉一清 (c. 1300?) Qiantang Yi Shi 錢塘遗事, in SKQS, CD 218, book no. 2135; also in Zhongguo Ye Shi Jicheng 中國野史集成, vol. 10, facsimile of 1887 edition, Chengdu 成都: Ba Shu Shu She 巴蜀書社, 1993.Google Scholar
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XJXZ: [Author unknown] (c. 1230) Xing Jun Xu Zhi 行軍须知, in Zhongguo Bingshu Jicheng 中國兵書集成, vol. 5, Beijing: Jiefangjun Chubanshe 解放軍出版社, 1988.Google Scholar
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