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Wind Against the Mountain: The Crisis of Politics and Culture in Thirteenth-Century China. By Richard L. Davis. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996. Pp. xvii, 283. $40.00.)

Conventional depictions of the thirteenth-century Mongol conquest of Song dynasty China usually stress the overwhelming military strength of the Mongol armies as they swept all before them. Richard Davis, however, gives us a different picture from within the Song court, from which perspective it...