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Paul D. Buell, Ph.D. (1977) in History, University of Washington, Seattle, is Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Horst-Goertz-Stiftungs-Institut, Berlin. He has published extensively on the history of the Mongols including an Historical Dictionary of the Mongol World Empire. E. N. Anderson, Ph.D. (1967) in Anthropology, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside. A specialist in ethnobiology and human ecology with extensive field work, he is the author of Floating World Lost (University Press of the South 2007). Charles Perry, B.A. (1964) in Middle East Languages, University of California, Berkeley, is a Los Angeles-based writer specializing in the food history of the Islamic world.

PART A: BACKGROUND AND ANALYSIS INTRODUCTION 1. HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT I. Yin-shan Cheng-yao: Text and Author II. The Rise of Mongolian Empire III. Mongols as Cultural Intermediaries IV. The Successor States V. Cultural Spheres of The Mongolian World Order 2. ANALYSIS OF THE TEXT PART B: TEXT AND TRANSLATION, PREFACES, CHUAN 1, CHUAN 2, CHUAN 3, PART C: APPENDICES