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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.

Breaks new scholarly boundaries in the exploration of cultural and scientific exchanges across Mongol Eurasia.

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CONTENTS
Preface = ⅸ
Note on transliteration = ⅹ
Abbreviations = xi
PART Ⅰ BACKGROUND
  1 Introduction = 3
  2 Before the Mongols = 8
PART Ⅱ POLITICAL - ECONOMIC RELATIONS
  3 Formation of the Il-qans, 1251-1265 = 17
  4 Grand Qans and I1-qans, 1265-1295 = 24
  5 Continuity and change under Ghazan, 1295-1304 = 31
  6 Sul a ? ns and Grand Qans, 1304-1335 = 35
  7 Economic ties = 41
  8 Overview of the relationship = 51
PART Ⅲ INTERMEDIARIES
  9 Marco Polo and Po-lo = 59
  10 Qubilai and Bolad Aqa = 63
  11 Rash i ? d al-D i ? n and P u ? l a ? d ch i ? nks a ? nk = 72
PART Ⅳ CULTURAL EXCHANGE
  12 Historiography = 83
  13 Geography and cartography = 103
  14 Agriculture = 115
  15 Cuisine = 127
  16 Medicine = 141
  17 Astronomy = 161
  18 Printing = 176
PART Ⅴ ANALYSIS AND CONCLUSIONS
  19 Models and methods = 189
  20 Agency = 193
  21 Filtering = 203
  22 Summation = 210
Bibliography = 212
Index = 238