In the thirteenth century, the Mongols created a vast transcontinental empire that functioned as a cultural 'clearing house' for the Old World. Under Mongol auspices various commodities, ideologies and technologies were disseminated across Eurasia. The focus of this path-breaking study is the extensive exchanges between Iran and China. The Mongol rulers of these two ancient civ...
In the thirteenth century, the Mongols created a vast transcontinental empire that functioned as a cultural 'clearing house' for the Old World. Under Mongol auspices various commodities, ideologies and technologies were disseminated across Eurasia. The focus of this path-breaking study is the extensive exchanges between Iran and China. The Mongol rulers of these two ancient civilizations 'shared' the cultural resources of their realms with one another. The result was a lively traffic in specialist personnel and scholarly literature between East and West. These exchanges ranged from cartography to printing, from agriculture to astronomy. The book concludes by asking why the Mongols made such heavy use of sedentary scholars and specialists in the elaboration of their court culture and why they initiated so many exchanges across Eurasia. This is a work of great erudition which crosses new scholarly boundaries in its analysis of communication and culture in the Mongol empire.
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In the course of this single expedition all the modes of exchange are clearly evident: the formal presentation of tribute and exotica; government trade capitalized by the royal treasury; "private” commerce, involving semi-official merchant capitalists like Jamāl al-Dīn, whose transportation costs were underwritten by the imperial court; and, finally, the transfer of proceeds from long-established allotted territories, those princely shares in the profits of empire. While exact numbers are lacking, the account of this embassy provides arresting anecdotal evidence that the volume of exchange between the two courts could reach impressive levels, thus providing yet another reason for these two Chinggisid lines to remain in contact and maintain their partnershipand alliance. (查看原文)
托马斯·爱尔森 作者
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1 有用 sanbilly 2010-03-30 08:29:23
簡直就是一部拉施特和孛罗的交往史。
1 有用 DRYJIAYOU 2020-07-07 21:04:01
相对于织物那本，爱尔森大幅推进了自己的研究。一部东西方交流的史诗，涉及方面非常广泛。蒙哥的二次分封造成的政治后果，以及波斯和中国的古老帝国传统，自然令两国走到一起，尤其是文化中间人拉施特与孛罗。蒙古人是一种有着自己政治文化、民间传统的过滤装置，通过自己的喜好有选择的进行传播，并且自己还会进行调整。蒙古人创造的是一种国家文化，这种文化是融合的，取决于蒙古人的需要，目的在于治理国家，因此相当功利的。同... 相对于织物那本，爱尔森大幅推进了自己的研究。一部东西方交流的史诗，涉及方面非常广泛。蒙哥的二次分封造成的政治后果，以及波斯和中国的古老帝国传统，自然令两国走到一起，尤其是文化中间人拉施特与孛罗。蒙古人是一种有着自己政治文化、民间传统的过滤装置，通过自己的喜好有选择的进行传播，并且自己还会进行调整。蒙古人创造的是一种国家文化，这种文化是融合的，取决于蒙古人的需要，目的在于治理国家，因此相当功利的。同时也与蒙古人的精神信仰有关，技术、文化在前现代帝国有着增强政治权威的功能，是一种精神力量，也是对其天授权力合法性的表现。游牧民的角色绝不仅仅是单纯的邮递员角色，而是通过其内在需要推动文化交流，充当中介人的。 (展开)
0 有用 六繁 2023-12-13 20:51:39 上海
more frustrating is the absence of Chinese characters, which would be extremely useful for the book's sinological audience.(from Michal Biran)...
0 有用 饥眠 2024-07-23 11:32:59 广东
蒙古人不是简单的搬运工，而是功利性很强的中介
0 有用 疍民 2024-11-20 12:10:48 美国
蒙古史