HARVARD-YENCHING INSTITUTE MONOGRAPH SERIES
Cover: Empire’s Twilight: Northeast Asia under the Mongols, from Harvard University PressCover: Empire’s Twilight in HARDCOVER

Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 68

Empire’s Twilight

Northeast Asia under the Mongols

Add to Cart

Product Details

HARDCOVER

$49.50 • £39.95 • €44.50

ISBN 9780674036086

Publication Date: 12/31/2009

x Text

450 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

Harvard University Asia Center > Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series

World, subsidiary rights restricted

Related Subjects

  • Koryŏ Kings during the Mongol Period
  • Mongolian Rulers
  • Map 1. Yuan Dynasty, 1330 (adapted from Christopher Atwood, Encyclopedia of Mongolian and the Mongol Empire [New York: Facts on File, 2004])
  • Map 2. The Rival Contenders, 1350–65 (adapted from Frederick Mote, Imperial China [Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999])
  • Map 3. Red Turban and Pirate Attacks (adapted from Kankoku rekishi chizu [Tokyo: Heibonsha, 2006])
  • Introduction
  • 1. Northeast Asia and the Mongol Empire
  • 2. A Precarious Restoration
  • 3. Koryŏ in the Great Yuan Ulus
  • 4. The Red Turban Wars
  • 5. Buffeted in the Storm
  • 6. In the Wake of the Invasions
  • 7. A New King of Koryŏ
  • 8. Wider Perspectives
  • Epilogue
  • Reference Matter
    • Notes
    • Works Cited
    • Index

Recent News

From Our Blog

Jacket: The Number of the Heavens: A History of the Multiverse and the Quest to Understand the Cosmos, by Tom Siegfried, from Harvard University Press

Q&A with Tom Siegfried, author of The Number of the Heavens: A History of the Multiverse and the Quest to Understand the Cosmos

In The Number of the Heavens, Tom Siegfried, the award-winning former editor of Science News, shows that one of the most fascinating and controversial ideas in contemporary cosmology—the existence of multiple parallel universes—has a long and divisive history that continues to this day. We spoke to him about the possible existence of a multiverse and the co…

‘manifold glories of classical Greek and Latin’

The digital Loeb Classical Library (loebclassics.com) extends the founding mission of James Loeb with an interconnected, fully searchable, perpetually growing virtual library of all that is important in Greek and Latin literature.