【明代东蒙古史】一 - pokotilov.pdf
HISTORYOF THE EASTERNMONGOLS DURING THE MING DYNASTYFROMTObyD.POKOrILOV Tranlated fron tle Russian by RDOLF LOWENTHAI TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword 1.TheReign of the Emperor Hung-wu(1-i39:9) II.A Survey ofthe Northern andNorthwestern Frontier of China 16-23 duringtheMingDynesty IIL.
FOREWORD Tne attcntiono!thosewho are interestedin the stuiyof thcMongol history has mainly bcen directed to its more brilliant phases.The destiny of the eastern Mongols that would be ofparticularinterest to the sinologues haslikewise been treated in its principal parts only.
HISTORYOFTHEEASTERNMCNGOLS ofvarious emperors(Pen-chi本)and fromthebiographies oiotst ning statesmen and generals(Lieh-chuan列)itransictelnotless thas eighty suchbiographies.Those who are familiar with the methods of Chinesehistorical writings and how scattered is the information on one and the same 