Comprised of seven essays, this book examines medieval Chinese history from a
multicultural perspective. Titling his Foreword 'Old Wine in New Bottles', Victor Mair, the …

Contemporaneously with the fall and transformation of the Roman West, the Iranian Empire
yielded its East to Hun—and later Turk—conquerors. This article traces the development of …

This article is a tour de horizon of the origin myths that were recorded in the Chinese
dynastic and other historical works written during the Türk era (552–ca. 744) and in …

The main objective of this paper is to propose the first tentative periodisation of the Old
Tibetan (OT) language based on a group of related sound changes. As it occurs, at the time …

This article suggests philological explanations for a number of terms that have so far wholly
or partly resisted analysis. The chosen examples highlight the fact that lacking progress was …

Introduction n Old Tibetan (OT) documents one can find terms such as bod yul, bod khams,
bod rgyal khams, bod lǰoṅs, or bod čhen po, all denoting the polity founded and ruled by …

Society and Misrepresentation of Nomadic Inner Asia (New York, 2007) and elsewhere in
some of the Social Science literature. Regardless of the problems that modern Social …

* I would like to thank Sylvia Wu Golden, as always, for assistance with the Chinese texts. 1
The name/title kül has also been read as köl. Clauson, 1972: 715, noting the uncertainty of …

Öz Göktürk Kağanlığı'nın siyasî tarihini ele alan bazı araştırmacılar, bu devletin Doğu ve Batı
Kağanlıkları olarak ikiye ayrılmasının 581'de yaşandığını, Batı Göktürk Kağanlığı'nın bu yılda …

We followed the clockwise circuit of Buddhist pilgrimage. I occasionally paused in
amazement to stare at the ancient murals painted high on crags. In single file, we entered …