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• catalog abstract ""In the thirteenth century the Mongols created a vast transcontinental empire that functioned as a cultural "clearing house" for the Old World. Under Mongol auspices various commodities, ideologies, and technologies were disseminated and displayed across Eurasia. The focus of this path-breaking study is the extensive exchanges between Iran and China. The Mongol rulers of these two ancient civilizations "shared" the cultural resources of their realms with one another. The result was lively traffic in specialist personnel and scholarly literature between East and West. These exchanges ranged from cartography to printing, and from agriculture to astronomy. Unexpectedly, the principal conduit of this transmission was an obscure Mongol tribesman, Bolad Aqa, who first served Chinggisid rulers of China and was then posted to Iran where he entered into a close and productive collaboration with the famed Persian statesman and historian. Rashid al-Din. The conclusion of the work examines why the Mongols made such heavy use of sedentary scholars and specialists in the elaboration of their court culture and why they initiated so many exchanges across Eurasia. The book is informative and erudite. It crosses new scholarly boundaries in its analysis of communication and culture in the Mongol Empire and promises to become a classic in the field."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b12259076.
• catalog coverage "China Civilization 13th century.".
• catalog coverage "China Civilization 960-1644.".
• catalog coverage "China Relations Iran.".
• catalog coverage "Iran Civilization 13th century.".
• catalog coverage "Iran Civilization.".
• catalog coverage "Iran Relations China.".
• catalog created "2001.".
• catalog date "2001".
• catalog date "2001.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
• catalog description ""In the thirteenth century the Mongols created a vast transcontinental empire that functioned as a cultural "clearing house" for the Old World. Under Mongol auspices various commodities, ideologies, and technologies were disseminated and displayed across Eurasia. The focus of this path-breaking study is the extensive exchanges between Iran and China. The Mongol rulers of these two ancient civilizations "shared" the cultural resources of their realms with one another. The result was lively traffic in specialist personnel and scholarly literature between East and West. These exchanges ranged from cartography to printing, and from agriculture to astronomy. Unexpectedly, the principal conduit of this transmission was an obscure Mongol tribesman, Bolad Aqa, who first served Chinggisid rulers of China and was then posted to Iran where he entered into a close and productive collaboration with the famed Persian statesman and historian. Rashid al-Din. The conclusion of the work examines why the Mongols made such heavy use of sedentary scholars and specialists in the elaboration of their court culture and why they initiated so many exchanges across Eurasia. The book is informative and erudite. It crosses new scholarly boundaries in its analysis of communication and culture in the Mongol Empire and promises to become a classic in the field."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-237) and index.".
• catalog description "Pt. I. Background -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Before the Mongols -- Pt. II. Political-Economic Relations -- 3. Formation of the Il-qans, 1251-1265 -- 4. Grand Qans and Il-qans, 1265-1295 -- 5. Continuity and change under Ghazan, 1295-1304 -- 6. Sultans and Grand Qans, 1304-1335 -- 7. Economic ties -- 8. Overview of the relationship -- Pt. III. Intermediaries -- 9. Marco Polo and Po-lo -- 10. Qubilai and Bolad Aqa -- 11. Rashid al-Din and Pulad chinksank -- Pt. IV. Cultural Exchange -- 12. Historiography -- 13. Geography and cartography -- 14. Agriculture -- 15. Cuisine -- 16. Medicine -- 17. Astronomy -- 18. Printing -- Pt. V. Analysis and Conclusions -- 19. Models and methods -- 20. Agency -- 21. Filtering -- 22. Summation.".
• catalog extent "xiii, 245 p. ;".
• catalog identifier "0521803357".
• catalog isPartOf "Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization".
• catalog issued "2001".
• catalog issued "2001.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
• catalog spatial "China Civilization 13th century.".
• catalog spatial "China Civilization 960-1644.".
• catalog spatial "China Relations Iran.".
• catalog spatial "Eurasia.".
• catalog spatial "Iran Civilization 13th century.".
• catalog spatial "Iran Civilization.".
• catalog spatial "Iran Relations China.".
• catalog subject "303.48/255051/09022 21".
• catalog subject "DS740.5.I7 A45 2001".
• catalog subject "Mongols Eurasia.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Pt. I. Background -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Before the Mongols -- Pt. II. Political-Economic Relations -- 3. Formation of the Il-qans, 1251-1265 -- 4. Grand Qans and Il-qans, 1265-1295 -- 5. Continuity and change under Ghazan, 1295-1304 -- 6. Sultans and Grand Qans, 1304-1335 -- 7. Economic ties -- 8. Overview of the relationship -- Pt. III. Intermediaries -- 9. Marco Polo and Po-lo -- 10. Qubilai and Bolad Aqa -- 11. Rashid al-Din and Pulad chinksank -- Pt. IV. Cultural Exchange -- 12. Historiography -- 13. Geography and cartography -- 14. Agriculture -- 15. Cuisine -- 16. Medicine -- 17. Astronomy -- 18. Printing -- Pt. V. Analysis and Conclusions -- 19. Models and methods -- 20. Agency -- 21. Filtering -- 22. Summation.".
• catalog title "Culture and conquest in Mongol Eurasia / Thomas T. Allsen.".
• catalog type "text".