Mongolian Studies, Journal of the Mongolia Society

Mongolian Studies: Journal of the Mongolia Society is the flagship publication of The Mongolia Society.

The journal is peer-reviewed publication and has been published annually since 1974. Preceding the current series were The Mongolia Society Newsletter (1962-1964) and The Mongolia Society Bulletin (1965-1973).

Current members receive the journal as part of their membership fees. Back issues are available for purchase.

Authors are welcome to submit articles and announcements for consideration of publication. For submission information and a style and formatting guide, please see this page: Submission and Style Guide for Authors.


The Current Issue, Volume 39 (2017-2018)

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Table of Contents

A Note from the Editor

Articles

  • The History of the Yuan, Chapter 1, edited & Translated by Christopher P. Atwood

  • Mongolia’s View on Sino-Russian Relations, by Nyamdoljin Adiya

  • Changkya Qutuγtu Rol-pa’i rdo-rje’s Translation Strategy: Theory into Practice, by Sainbileg Byambadorj

Review Article

  • Languages of Ancient Southern Mongolia and North China: A Historical-Comparative Study of the Serbi or Xianbei Branch of the Serbi-Mongolic Language, by Andrew Shimunek; Review by Yasunori Takeuchi

Book Reviews

  • Historical Dictionary of the Mongol World Empire, by Paul D. Buell and Francesca Fiaschetti; Review by Morris Rossabi

  • A World Trimmed with Fur: Wild Things, Pristine Places, and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule, by Jonathan Schlesinger; Review by Johan Elverskog

  • The Lama Question: Violence, Sovereignty, and Exception in Early Socialist Mongolia, by Christopher Kaplonski; Review by Brian Baumann

  • Governing Post-Imperial Siberia and Mongolia, 1911-1924: Buddhism, Socialism and Nationalism in State and Autonomy Building, by Ivan Sablin; Review by Robert W. Montgomery

  • Wu Heling yu Menggu, by Wu Heling; Review by Wei-chih Tsai

  • How Mongolia Matters, edited by Morris Rossabi; Review by Timothy May

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Previous Issues

2010s

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    Articles

    In Memoriam: Thomas T. Allsen, by Timothy May and Peter B. Golden.

    Unwavering Khatuns: Women and Loyalty in The Secret History of the Mongols, by Sally Maclean Greenland.

    The Repression of Buryat Buddhism in the 1930s: Competing Narratives of Soviet and Western Historians During the Cold War, by Melissa Chakars.

    Observations on the longest serving Russian Diplomat in Mongolia, 1861-1911, by Yurii Kuzmin and Ts. Batbayar.

    President Bush’s 2005 Mongolia Visit: A Bilateral Relations Milestone, by Pamela J. Slutz and Brian L. Goldbeck.

    Review Article

    Buddhism in Mongolia, by Brian Baumann.

    Book Reviews

    Central Eurasia in the Middle Ages: Studies in Honour of Peter B. Golden, edited by István Zimonyi and Osman Karatay. Review by Timothy May.

    The Mongol Art of War, by Timothy May. Review by Sally Greenland.

    The Jalayirids: Dynastic State Formation in the Mongol Middle East, by Patrick Wing. Review by Michael Hope.

    Marriage and the Law in the Age of Khubilai Khan: Cases from the Yuan Dianzhang, by Bettine Birge. Review by Anne Broadbridge

    Tea Practices in Mongolia: Female Power and Gendered Meanings from Birth to Death, by Gabriel Bamana. Review by Alica Campi

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    A Note From the Editor, by Timothy May.

    Articles

    In Memoriam: James Bosson (1933-2016) and Mongolian Studies at UC Berkeley, by Uranchimeg Tsultemin.

    Two Twentieth-Century Mongolian Musicians (Parts I and II), by Mary Rossabi, Yuki Konagaya and Morris Rossabi.

    The Geographical Study of Mongolia: A Scholarly Bibliography, by Thomas Rumney.

    Review Article

    Daily Life of the Dzhida Buryats in the Reminiscences of Galina Tudinova (Reministsentsii kochevogo obraza zhizni na fone povsednevnykh praktik sovetskogo i postsovetskogo vremeni (ustnaia istoriia G. B. Tudinovoi) [Reminiscences of the Nomadic Way of Life on the Background of Everyday Practices of Soviet and Post-Soviet Times: The Oral History of G. B. Tudinova], by S. G. Zhambalova. Review by Robert W. Montgomery.

    Mongolian Bible Translations (Bibli (šine orčuulga) [Bible (New Translation)] by Bibliin Orčuulagčdín Bag, Mongolian Bible Translators’ Team). Review by Gyorgy Kara.

    Book Reviews

    The Eurasian Way of War: Military practice in seventh-century China and Byzantium (Asian States and Empires), by David A. Graff. Review by Timothy May.

    Power, Politics, and Tradition in the Mongol Empire and the Ilkhanate of Iran, by Michael Hope. Review by Beatrice Forbes Manz.

    The Translation Chapter of the Late Ming Lulongsai Lüe: Bilingual Sections of a Chinese Military Manual, by Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky. Review by Christopher P. Atwood.

    The Biography of the First Khalkha Jbetsundampa Zanabazar by Zaya Paṇḍita Luvsanprinlei, by Agata Bareja-Starzyńska. Review by Uranchimeg Tsultemin.

    Building New China, Colonizing Kokonor: Resettlement to Qinghai in the 1950s, by Gregory Rohlf. Review by Steven Pieragastini

    Book Notices and Other Books Received, by Henry G. Schwarz

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    A Note from the Editors

    Changes for Mongolian Studies: An Editorial Panel, Peer Review and Digitization with JSTOR, by David Bade

    Articles

    Tradition of Tibetan-Mongolian btus ming dictionaries dedicated to “Hundred thousand songs” of Milarepa, by Nyammyagmar Batbayar.

    How Choice Influences Benefit or Efficiency in ‘Democracy’ (Reaping the fruits of ‘Democracy’ depends on choices: An example from Mongolian Kazakh society), by Sukhee Battulga

    On Several Letters by Dilowa Khutughtu Jamsranjav Kept in the Mongolian National Central Archive, by Jigmeddorj Enkhbayar

    Tsatsal: The Symbolism and Significance of Mongolian Ceremonial Milk Spoons, by Sharon Hudgins

    Book Reviews

    The Mongol Empire between Myth and Reality: Studies in Anthropological History, Iran Studies, Vol. 11, by Denise Aigle. Review by Christopher P. Atwood

    Sinophobia. Anxiety, Violence, and the Making of Mongolian Identity, by Franck Billé. Review by Gabriel Bamana

    A Monastery in Time: The Making of Mongolian Buddhism, by Caroline Humphrey and Hürelbaatar Ujeed. Review by David Bade

    Book Notices and Other Books Received, by Henry G. Schwarz

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    A Festschrift for Wayne Richter, by David Bade.

    Preface, by Henry G. Schwarz.

    Articles

    Bibliographic Control of Mongolian Language Materialat the Library of Congress, by Randall K. Barry.

    Translating Library Terminology into Mongolian: Issues and Considerations, by Enerel Dambiinyam and David N. Nelson.

    Surveys of Monastic Colleges as Polemic in Zawa Damdin’s Golden Book, by Matthew King.

    A Thangka in the Library of Congress: Art for Independence and International Politics in Inner Asia in the early 20th century, by Uranchimeg Tsultemin.

    The Prison Music Of R. Choinom, by Simon Wickhamsmith.

    Remains and Renewals: The Process of Preserving Urtyn duu in Contemporary Mongolia, by Sunmin Yoon.

    Books Reviews

    A Long Note on Turkic kärgäk and Mongol kereg; Ker(g)äk–zur Biographie eines erfolgreiches Etymons, by Claus Schönig. Review by György Kara.

    The Thirteenth Dalai Lama on the Run (1904-1906): Archival Documents from Mongolia, by Chuluun Sampildonduv and Uradyn E. Bulag. Review by Christopher P. Atwood.

    The Constitution and Contestation of Darhad Shamans’ Power in Contemporary Mongolia, by Judith Hangartner. Review by Joseph Bristley.

    Mongolian, by Juha A. Janhunen. Review by David Bade.

    Studies in Mongolic Historical Morphology: Verb Formation in the Secret History of the Mongols, by Béla Kempf. Review by David Bade.

    On Quotation in Middle Mongolian: The Verb ke(m)e-‘to say, by John C. Street. Review by David Bade.

    Book Notices and Other Books Received, by Henry G. Schwarz.

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    Articles

    Banner, Otog, Thousand: Appanage Communities as the Basic Unit of Traditional Mongolian Society, by Christopher Atwood.

    A Brief Introduction to the Historical Relics of the Hexi Corridor from the Time of the Mongol Empire, by Otgon Borjigin.

    The Transmission of Authority through the Quriltais of the Early Mongol Empire and the Īlkhānate of Iran (1227-1335), by Michael Hope.

    Review Article

    Corresponding Mongolists: Helmut Walravens in the Archives of Francis W. Cleaves, Walter Fuchs, Hans Conon von der Gabelentz, Walther Heissig, Bernhard Jülg, and Nikolaus Poppe, by David Bade

    Book Reviews

    Another Tract for the Buryats: Including I. J. Schmidt's Recently Identified Kalmuck Originals, by Charles Bawden. Review by Bayarjargal Garamtseren

    The Mongols and the Black Sea Trade in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, by Ciocîltan Virgil. Review by David Bade

    Sprachtabus in tungusischen Sprachen und Dialekten: Am Beispiel von S. M. Širokogorovs „Tungus Dictionary, by Michael Knüppel. Review by Andrew Shimunek.

    The Secret History of the Mongols: A Mongolian Epic Chronicle of the Thirteenth Century. Volume 3: Supplement, by Igor de Rachewiltz. Review by John C. Street

    Introduction to Altaic philology: Turkic, Mongolian, Manchu, by Igor de Rachewiltz, Rybatzki Volker, and Chin-Fu Hung. Review by David Bade.

    Mapping Mongolia: Situating Mongolia in the World from Geological Time to the Present, by Paula Sabloff. Review by Leland Rogers.

    Book Notices and Other Books Received, by Henry G. Schwarz.

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    Fiftieth Anniversary of the Mongolia Society

    50th Anniversary of The Mongolia Society, by Alicia J. Campi.

    Letter from Amarsanaa Jignee, Director of the Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Law of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences.

    The 50th anniversary of the Mongolia Society starts: July 10th, 2011, by M. Saruul-Erdene.

    Selected Papers from the 50th Anniversary Conference

    The Idea of Labor Among Deported Kalmyks: Kalmyk Resilience Through Celebration in the Gulag, by Lyubov B. Chetyrova.

    Dynamic modality in Mongolian: Modais čad- and bol-'s meaning and usage, by Gang Jin.

    The "ǰirüken-ü tolta" Ascribed to Chos-kyi 'Od-zer, by György Kara.

    Bogd Khaan Government and Qinghai Mongols, by Makoto Tachibana.

    Ethnic Riots and Violence in the Mongol Empire: A Comparative Perspective, by Tsai Wei-chieh.

    Ashtasahasrika Prajnyaparamita in Mongolia: Some Problems of Interpretation, by Natalia Yampolskaya.

    Book Reviews

    Areal, Historical and Typological Aspects of South Siberian Turkic. (Turcologica, Band 94), by Marcel Erdal, Irina Nevskaya, and Astrid Menz. Review by David Bade.

    Bare House = Нуцгзн Байшин by Annu Wilenius. Review by David Bade.

    The Past Tenses of the Mongolian Verb: Meaning and Use, by Robert I. Binnick. Review by David Bade.

    The Horse-Head Fiddle and the Cosmopolitan Reimagination of Tradition in Mongolia. (Current Research in Ethnomusicology Series, 12), by Peter K. Marsh. Review by Monica Figueroa.

    Dukhan, a Turkic Variety of Northern Mongolia: Description and Analysis. Turcologica, Bd. 76, by Elisabetta Ragagnin. Review by David Bade

    Book Notices and Other Books Received, by Henry G. Schwarz.

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    Articles

    Earthing Eternal Heaven: Towards a Mongolization of Educational Philosophies, by Ines Stolpe.

    A Preliminary Look At Mongolian Teachers' And Stakeholders' Perceptions Of Disability In The Classroom, by Anne Riordan.

    Political Parties Against the Background of Neoliberal Reform in Present Day Mongolia, by I. Y. Morozova.

    Book Reviews

    Uchenye iz Alarskogo i Nukutskogo raionov Ust'-Ordynskogo Buriatskogo Avtonomnogo Okruga [Scholars from the Alar and Nukuty Raions of Ust'-Orda Buryat Autonomous Okrug] by Genadii Dorzhievich Basaev. Review by Robert Montgomery.

    Bibliographies of Mongolian, Manchu-Tungus, and Tibetan Dictionaries, by Larry V. Clark, John R. Krueger, Manfred Taube, Hartmut Walravens, and Michael L. Walter. Review by Andrew Shimunek,

    Reins of Liberation: An Entangled History of Mongolian Independence, Chinese Territoriality, and Great Power Hegemony, 1911-1950, by Xiaoyuan Liu. Review by Christopher P. Atwood.

    Marriage as Political Strategy and Cultural Expression: Mongolian Royal Marriages from World Empire to Yuan Dynasty, by George Qingzhi Zhao. Review by Thomas T. Allsen

    Book Notices and Other Books Received, by Henry G. Schwarz.

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2000s

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    Articles

    Political Slang in Modern Mongolian, by Ochirbat Sambuudorj.

    The Translation History of the Mongolian Bible, by Staffan Rosén.

    The Interrogative Particle in Early Middle Mongolian, by John C. Street.

    Book Reviews

    The Royal Hunt in Eurasian History, by Thomas T. Allsen. Review by Paul D. Buell.

    Mongolische Grammatik. Entwurf einer Funktionalen Grammatik (FG) des modernen, literarischen Chalchamongolischen, by Karl Rudolf Bittigau. Review by György Kara.

    Precious Steppe: Mongolian Nomadic Pastoralists in Pursuit of the Market by Ole Bruun; Mongols from Country to City: Floating Boundaries, Pastoralism and City Life in the Mongol Lands, by Ole Bruun and Li Narangoa. Review by Tristra Newyear

    The Kalmyks, by Elza-Bair Buchinova and David C. Lewis. Review by Michael Gelb.

    A Handbook of 'Phags-pa Chinese, by W. South Coblin. Review by György Kara.

    Répertoire des pétroglyphes d'Asie centrale. Fascicule No. 6: Mongolie du Nord-Ouest, Tsagaan Salaa/Baga Oigor. Under the direction of Jacov Sher et Henri-Paul Francfort. Vol. 1: Texte et figures, 481 pages. Vol. 2: Planches, 256 pages. Mémoires de la Mission Archéologique Française en Asie Centrale, vols. 5 and 6, by Esther Jacobson, Vladimir Kubarev, Damdinsurengin Tseveendorj, Damdensurenjin Tseveendorj, Gary Tepfer, and James Meacham. Review by Nathan Light.

    Ultra paludes Maeoticas. Zentralasienswissenschaftliche und linguistische Studien für Michael Weiers. 1: Zentralasienswissenschaftliche Studien. Band 23, by Hans-Rainer Kämpfe, Carsten Naeher, and Stefan Georg; Review by György Kara.

    Dateline Mongolia: An American Journalist in Nomad's Land, by Michael Kohn. Review by Brian Baumann.

    Lama of the Gobi: The Life and Times of Danzan Rabjaa Mongolia's Greatest Mystical Poet, by Michael Kohn. Review by Johan Elverskog.

    Tractata Tibetica et Mongolica. Festschrift für Klaus Sagaster zum 65. Geburtstag, by Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz and Christian Peter. Review by György Kara.

    Early Mongol Rule in Thirteenth-Century Iran: A Persian Renaissance, by George Lane. Review by Timothy May.

    Colloquial Mongolian: An Introductory Intensive Course, by Jugderiin Lubsangdorji and Jaroslav Vacek. Review by Tserenchunt Legden.

    Gobi: Tracking the Desert, by John Man. Review by Alicia J. Campi.

    Etnografiia Buriatskogo Naroda: Bibliograficheskii Ukazatel' 1768-2002, by D. D. Nimaev. Review by Joseph Long.

    Tuwinischer Wortschatz mit altturkischen und mongolischen Parallelen, by Mehmet Ölmez. Review by William Rozycki.

    History and Historiography of Post-Mongol Central Asia and the Middle East: Studies in Honor of John E. Woods, by Judith Pfeiffer and Sholeh A. Quinn. Review by Timothy May.

    Modern Mongolia: From Khans to Commissars to Capitalists, by Morris Rossabi. Review by Justin Tighe.

    The Phonology of Mongolian, by Jan-Olof Svantesson, Anna Tsendina, Anastasia Karlsson, and Vivan Franzén. Review by György Kara.

    Enkhtubshin's Daughter: An East Tumet Girl's Journey from Inner Mongolia to America, by Tai Yu Tse. Review by Anonymous.

    Volksmärchen der Mongolen, by Erika Taube. Review by Marta Kiripolská.

    "Explanation of the Knowable" by 'Phags-pa bla-ma Blo-gros rgyal-mtshan (1235-1280): Facsimile of the Mongolian Translation with Transliteration and Notes, by Vladimir Uspensky. Review by Johan Elverskog.

    The Role of Women in the Altaic World: Permanent International Altaistic Conference, 44th Meeting. Walberberg 26-31 August, 2001, by Veronika Veit. Review by Linda Cooke Johnson.

    Book Notices and Other Books Received, by Henry G. Schwarz

    Articles

    The Sacrificed Brother in the "Secret History of the Mongols," by Christopher P. Atwood.

    Chinggis Khan: Ancestor, Buddha or Shaman? On the uses and abuses of the portrait of Chinggis Khan, by Isabelle Charleux.

    Chinggis on the Japanese Mind, by Joshua Fogel.

    A Portrait of the Khan as a Young Man: Mongolian author S. Buyannemekhü's "Heroic Boy Temüjin," by Tristra Newyear.

    Review Article

    Central Eurasians Everywhere, Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present, by Christopher I. Beckwith. Review by Daniel C. Waugh,

    Book Reviews

    The Mongols in the Islamic Lands: Studies in the History of the Ilkhanate, by Reuven Amitai. Review by Anne F. Broadbridge.

    Kingship and Ideology in the Islamic and Mongol Worlds, by Anne F. Broadbridge. Review by Paul D. Buell.

    The Purge of the Inner Mongolian People's Party in the Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1967-69: A Function of Language, Power and Violence, by Kerry Brown. Review by Xiaoyuan Liu.

    Khubilai Khan's Lost Fleet, by James P. Delgado. Review by David Curtis Wright.

    Time, Causality and Prophecy in the Mongolian Cultural Region, by Rebecca Empson. Review by Brian Bauman.

    Mongolian Buddhism: The Rise and Fall of the Samgha, by Michael K. Jerryson. Review by Johan Elverskog.

    The Headless State: Aristocratic Orders, Kinship Society, and Misrepresentation of Nomadic Inner Asia, by David Sneath. Review by: Pekka Hämäläinen.

    Book Notices and Other Books Received, by Henry G. Schwarz.

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    John R. Krueger—An Appreciation on His Eightieth Birthday, by Alicia J. Campi

    Tabula Gratulatoria

    Articles

    Ögedei and Alcohol, by Thomas T. Allsen

    An Oirad-Kalmyk Version of the "White Old Man" Sutra found among the Archives of the Late Lama Sanji Rabga Möngke Baqši, by Sanj Altan

    Informants and Sources for the "Secret History of the Mongols," by Christopher P. Atwood

    A Note on the Name and Identity of the Junghars, by Christopher I. Beckwith

    Language of the Oirad-Kalmyks: Past and Present, by Aisa Bitkeeva

    A Cautionary Tale: Cinggis-qan as the Third Man, by Paul D. Buell

    Thomas Pynchon and Shambhala, by Johan Elverskog

    The Development in Mongolia of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, by Paul Hyer

    Images of 'the Good Life' in the Mongolian Altai (Bronze-Early Iron Ages), by Esther Jacobson-Tepfer

    A Few Remarks on Letter A in O. Süxbaatar's "Mongol xelnii xari ügiin toli," by György Kara

    Haslund's "Toregut Rarelro" in the Parallel Text in Ulaanbaatar, by Hidehiro Okada and Junko Miyawaki-okada

    The Vowel System of West Middle Mongol, by Yoshio Saitô

    Standardization of the Mongolian Verb Tense System, by Myagmar Saruul-Erdene

    Notes on "The Beautiful Flower Chaplet": A Nineteenth Century Mongolian Guide to the Shu-hsiang Szǔ of Wu-t'ai Shan, by Robert G. Service

    A Mongol Diplomatic Approach to the United States written in 1952, by Denis Sinor

    Once Again on the Tabgač Language, by Alexander Vovin

    Navies in the Mongol Yuan Conquest of Southern Song China, 1274-1279, by David Curtis Wright

    Book Notices and Other Books Received, by Henry G. Schwarz

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    Articles

    Buryat Chronicles as Historical Sources of Buryat Ethnicity: A Reconstruction of a Hierarchical Structure of Ethnic Identity, by Darima Boronoyeva

    Equals in birth, not in death? Interpreting differences within contemporary Mongolian funeral practices, by Gregory Delaplace

    The Chinggis Khan Shrine in Eastern Inner Mongolia, by Paul Hyer

    The Squaring of the Circle: Remarks on Identity and Change from the Study of a Mongol-Han Community in Hulun Buir, Inner Mongolia, by Alexandra Marois

    A Mongolian Constellation Chart, by Carl Masthay

    Book Reviews

    The Tea Road: China and Russia Meet Across the Steppe, by Martha Avery; Review by Elizabeth Endicott

    The Empire of the Qara Khitai in Eurasian History: Between China and the Islamic World, by Michal Biran; Review by: Christopher P. Atwood

    White Terror: Cossack Warlords of the Trans-Siberian, by Jamie Bisher; Review by Brian Baumann

    Tang China and the Collapse of the Uighur Empire: A Documentary History. by Michael R. Drompp; Review by: Michael C. Brose

    Sacred Geography. Biblioteca Shamanica, vol. 12 by Eva Jane Neumann Fridman; Review by Tristra Newyear

    Die Gesetzgebung der Qing für die Mongolen im 17. Jahrhundert: Anhand des Mongolischen Gesetzbuches aus der Kangxi-Zeit (1662—1722), by Dorothea Heuschert; Review by Li Narangoa

    Is Japanese Related to Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic?, by Martine Irma Robbeets; Review by William V. Rozycki

    A Grammar of Mangghuer: A Mongolie Language of China's Qinghai-Gansu Sprachbund, by Keith Slater; Review by Andrew Shimunek

    Educational Import: Local Encounters with Global Forces in Mongolia, by Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Ines Stolpe; Review by Edward Vickers

    Han-Mongol Encounters and Missionary Endeavors: A History of Scheut in Ordos (Hetao) 1874-1911, by Patrick Taveirne (pp. 120-122); Review by: Justin Tighe

    Book Notices and Other Books Received, by Henry G. Schwarz

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    Articles

    Mongolian Concepts of the Soul, by Juriin Bayansan and Juriin Bayansang

    A Contract in the Uyghur-Mongolian Script From Dunhuang's Mogao Caves, by Otgon Borjigin

    Cost-Sharing in Mongolian Higher Education, by Okhidoi Otgonjargal

    Land Classification, Privatization, and Organization in Mongolia: Recent Developments, by Alan Sanders

    Translation

    Pan-Mongolian Poetry from 1945, by Christopher P. Atwood

    Book Reviews

    Auxiliary Verb Constructions in Altai-Sayan Turkic, by Gregory D. S. Anderson; Review by John R. Krueger

    Ancient China and Its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History, by Nicola Di Cosmo; Review by Christopher P. Atwood

    Warfare in Inner Asian History (500-1800), by Nicola Di Cosmo; Review by Christopher P. Atwood

    Manchu-Mongol Relations on the Eve of the Qing Conquest: A Documentary History, by Nicola Di Cosmo and Dalizhabu Bao; Review by Johan Elverskog

    Mongolovedenie na zapade: Tsentry, kadry, obshchestva (50-e seredina 90-x godov XX veka) [Mongolian Studies in the West: Centers, Personnel, Societies, from the Fifties to the middle of the '90s of the Twentieth Century], by Mark I. Gol'man; Review by John R. Krueger

    The Unmaking of Soviet Life: Everyday Economies After Socialism, by Caroline Humphrey; Review by Morris Rossabi

    Erdeni tunumal neretü sudur: Die Biographie des Altan qagan der Tümed-Mongolen. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der religionspolitischen Beziehungen zwischen der Mongolei und Tibet im ausgehenden 16. Jahrhundert, by Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz; Review by: Johan Elverskog

    The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia, 1256-1353, by Linda Komaroff, Stefano Carboni; Review by Timothy May

    The Comintern and Revolution in Mongolia, by Irina Y. Morozova and Irina I. Morozova, Review by: Michael Gelb

    Mongolyn ert ba edügee, by T. Namjim; Review by Brian Baumann

    Time Traveller: In Search of Dinosaurs and Ancient Mammals from Montana to Mongolia by Michael Novacek; Dragon Hunter: Roy Chapman Andrews and the Central Asiatic Expeditions, by Charles Gallenkamp and Michael J. Novacek; Review by John R. Krueger

    Hertig Larson: Äventyrare, Missionär, Upptäckare, by Axel Odelberg; Review by Johan Elverskog

    Against Their Will: The History and Geography of Forced Migrations in the USSR, by Pavel Polian; Review by Michael Jakobson

    The Secret History of the Mongols: A Mongolian Epic Chronicle of the Thirteenth Century, by Igor de Rachewiltz; Review by John R. Krueger

    Modern Mongolia: Reclaiming Genghis Khan, by Paula Sabloff; Review by Johan Elverskog

    Videniia buddiiskogo ada [Visions of Buddhist Hell], by A. G. Sazykin; Review by John R. Krueger

    Zanimatel'nye zametki, opisanie puteshestviya vokrug sveta (avtobiografiya) [Diverting Remarks, a Description of my trip around the world, an autobiography], by Agvan Dordzhiev, A.D. Tsendina, and A.G. Sazykin; Review by John R. Krueger

    English-Tuvan Phrasebook / Angli-tuva chugaa nomu, by Aldynai B. Sedeb-Khuurak; Review by John R. Krueger

    Hearing Birds Fly: A Nomadic Year in Mongolia, by Louisa Waugh; Review by Alexander C. Diener

    Book Notices and Other Books Received, by Henry G. Schwarz

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    Erratum

    The Schwa In Mongolian: Mongolian Vowel Reduction In Non-Initial Syllables, by Hasbagana

    American Literature in Mongolian Textbooks, by Yümjiriin Münkh-Amgalan

    Why the Kalmyks Do Not Speak Their Own Language, by Elena Remilev

    A Rendering of Square Script Mongolian on the Îlkhân Ghâzân Maḥmûd's Coins, by Mark A. Whaley

    Poetry

    Movie Fragment, by Luvsandamba Dashnyam

    Jinjimaa and Munkhlash, by Luvsandamba Dashnyam

    Happiness That Hits, by Luvsandamba Dashnyam

    Book Reviews

    An Anthology of Mongolian Traditional Literature, by Charles R. Bawden; Review by G. Kara

    Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, by Michael J. Benton, Mikhail A. Shishkin, David M. Unwin, and Evgenii N. Kurochkin; Review by Christopher P. Atwood

    Mongolian Historical Writing from 1200 to 1700, by Shagdaryn Bira and John R. Krueger; Review by Peter A. Michalove

    Women, Property, and Confucian Reaction in Sung and Yüan China (960-1368), by Bettine Birge; Review by Elizabeth Endicott

    Historical Dictionary of the Mongol World Empire. Historical Dictionaries of Ancient Civilizations and Eras, No. 8, by Paul D. Buell; Review by Morris Rossabi

    The Mongols at China's Edge: History and the Politics of National Unity, by Uradyn Erden Bulag; Review by G. Kara

    Nomads and their Neighbors in the Russian Steppe: Turks, Khazars and Qipchaqs, by Peter B. Golden; Review by Reuven Amitai

    “Individuelles und traditionelles Erzählen. Der mongolische Erzähler Čoγrub (Čoyirub) aus Ordus (1912-1989).” Asiatische Forschungen, Vol. 136, by Walther Heissig; Review by G. Kara

    Katalog mandjurischer Handschriften und Blockdrucke in den Sammlungen der Bibliothek der Orientalischen Fakultät der Sankt-Petersburger Universität. Orientalistik Bibliographien und Dokumentationen, Vol. 14, by K. S. Jachontov and Hartmut Walravens; Review by G. Kara

    Zur Verwaltungsgeschichte der Mandschurei (1644-1930), by Wolfgang Seuberlich; Review by Johannes Reckel

    Changing Inner Mongolia: Pastoral Mongolian Society and the Chinese State, by David Sneath; Review by Melissa Čakars

    Shanar: Dedication Ritual of a Buryat Shaman in Siberia as Conducted by Bayir Rinchinov, by Virlana Tkacz, Sayan Zhambalov, and Wanda Phipps; Review by Erjen Khamaganova

    Book Notices and Other Books Received, by Henry G. Schwarz

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