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The Precious Summary: A History of the Mongols from Chinggis Khan to the Qing Dynasty By Sagang Sechen, translated by Johan Elverskog. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. 376 pp. $140.00 (cloth), $35.00 (paper), $34.99 (ebook)

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The Precious Summary: A History of the Mongols from Chinggis Khan to the Qing Dynasty By Sagang Sechen, translated by Johan Elverskog. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. 376 pp. $140.00 (cloth), $35.00 (paper), $34.99 (ebook)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2023

Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz
Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz*
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Journal of Chinese History 中國歷史學刊 , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , January 2024 , pp. 195 - 197
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References

1 The Bejewelled Summary of the Origin of Khans (Qad-un ündüsün-ü Erdeni-yin tobci): A History of the Eastern Mongols to 1662 [by] Sagang Sechen, Prince of the Ordos Mongols. Newly translated from the original Mongolian by John R. Krueger (Bloomington: The Mongolia Society, 1967).

2 Sagang Secen: Erdeni-yin tobci (“Precious Summary”): A Mongolian Chronicle of 1662. 1: The Urga text transcribed and edited by M. Gō, I. de Rachewiltz, J.R. Krueger, and B. Ulaan (Canberra: Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1990).

3 Based on the Tibetan usage of the term (Tib. mjug byang and mdzad byang), a colophon can be defined as “a piece of writing found as a rule at the end of a work … providing information on one or more facts related to its identity, production, and transmission, including the work's title, names of persons involved, such as author or compiler … and the duration, date, place, (re)sources, and motives of composition or production.” (Wangchuk, Dorji, “The Syntax of Tibetan Colophons: An Overview,” in The Syntax of Colophons: A Comparative Study across Pothi Manuscripts, edited by Balbir, Nalini and Ciotti, Giovanni (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022), 328Google Scholar.

4 Kara, G., “Sagang Sechen's Teachings Reconsidered,” Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 74.2 (2021), 268CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

5 Krueger, John R., “The Epilogue and Gnomic Colophon of the Erdeni-yin Tobči,” Central Asiatic Journal 8 (1963), 104–34Google Scholar, and Kara, “Sagang Sechen's Teachings Reconsidered.”

6 See Schaik, Sam van, Tibet: A History (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011), 41–42Google Scholar.