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Hok-Lam Chan. China and the Mongols: History and Legend under the Yuan and Ming.(Review)
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China Review International
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September 22, 2000| Author:
Endicott, Elizabeth
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Hok-Lam Chan. China and the Mongols: History and Legend under the Yuan and Ming. Variorum Collected Studies Series, 647. Aldershot, Brookfield, Singapore, and Sydney: Ashgate, ix, pagination by essay. Hardcover $106.95, ISBN 0-86078-762-1.
The Variorum Collected Studies Series has gathered together here ten essays on Yuan and Ming history by Hok-lam Chan, one of the foremost scholars writing on China in the era of the conquest dynasties (tenth to fourteenth centuries) an...
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