founding emperor of the Yuan Dynasty. The period from the late 12th to the early 13th centuries saw strengthened economic contacts between different tribes as production skills and resources ...

5 THE FIRST dragon to show itself during the Yuan dynasty did so in 1292 ... Centuries of custom regarded the emperor as Heaven’s son. By Chinese kinship rules, he was the only person entitled to ...

History shows Xinjiang's fate has always been part of the Chinese nation, and the region's development reflects the evolution ...

The Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasty Studies is an international society committed to the encouragement of the study of Chinese—as well as Jürchen, Khitan, Tangut, and Mongol—history, ...