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Ming Diplomacy and Patronage in Chinggisid Eurasia - In the Shadow of the Mongol Empire: Ming China and Eurasia. By David M. Robinson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xiii, 372 pp. ISBN: 9781108482448 (cloth). - Ming China and Its Allies: Imperial Rule in Eurasia. By David M. Robinson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 258 pp. ISBN: 9781108489225 (cloth).

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In the Shadow of the Mongol Empire: Ming China and Eurasia. By David M. Robinson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xiii, 372 pp. ISBN: 9781108482448 (cloth).
Ming China and Its Allies: Imperial Rule in Eurasia. By David M. Robinson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 258 pp. ISBN: 9781108489225 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2021

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 80 , Issue 2 , May 2021 , pp. 537 - 540
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References

1 Robinson, David M., “Politics, Force and Ethnicity in Ming China: Mongols and the Abortive Coup of 1461,” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 59, no. 1 (1999): 79–123CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Zhongguo as “Central State”: Shadow of the Mongol Empire, pp. 193–955 (citing Ming Taizu shilu [MTZSL] 25.7b–8a, pp. 374–75), pp. 241–42 (MTZSL 141.5a–b), pp. 245–46 (MTZSL 244.2b–4a); zhongguo as “China”: Shadow of the Mongol Empire, pp. 198–99 (MTZSL 46.10b–11a, pp. 926–27), pp. 204–5 (MTZSL 77.51-b, pp. 1417–18), pp. 232–33 (MTZSL 71.1b–2a, pp. 1314–15). These and the following are selected examples.

3 Hu as “northern horsemen”: Shadow of the Mongol Empire, pp. 232–33 (MTZSL 71.1b–2a, pp. 1314–15); hu as “barbarian”: Shadow of the Mongol Empire, pp. 198–99 (MTZSL 46.10b–11a, pp. 926–27).

4 Yi as “barbarian”: Shadow of the Mongol Empire, pp. 196–97 (MTZSL 41.3a, p. 819), pp. 198–99 (MTZSL 46.10b–11a, pp. 926–27), pp. 241–42 (MTZSL 141.5a–b); yi as “foreigner”: Shadow of the Mongol Empire, pp. 232–33 (MTZSL 71.1b–2a, pp. 1314–15), p. 236 (MTZSL 92.7a–8a); yi as “outlander”: Shadow of the Mongol Empire, pp. 193–95 (MTZSL 25.7b–8a, pp. 374–75); yi as “Yi” or “yi”: Shadow of the Mongol Empire, pp. 212, 232–33 (MTZSL 71.1b–2a, pp. 1314–15).

5 Robinson, David M., “Justifying Ming Rulership on a Eurasian Stage,” in Ming China: Courts and Contacts 1400–1450, ed. Clunas, Craig, Yu-Ping, Luk, and Harrison-Hall, Jessica (London: British Museum Press, 2016), 205Google Scholar.

6 On “Great States,” see Brook, Timothy, “Great States,” Journal of Asian Studies 75, no. 4 (2016): 957–72CrossRefGoogle Scholar.