Patrick Taveirne. Han-Mongol Encounters and Missionary Endeavors: A History of Scheut in Ordos (Hetao) 1874-1911.(Book Review)

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Patrick Taveirne. Han-Mongol Encounters and Missionary Endeavors: A History of Scheut in Ordos (Hetao) 1874-1911. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2004, 684 pp. Paperback $125.00, ISBN 90-5867-3650-0.

This tome is as weighty as a dissertation and could have profited greatly from an editor's whittling it down to the manageable size of a scholarly monograph. I assume that the title was not invented by the publisher's marketing department; in any case, this thoroughly resea...

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