Ruth W Dunnell
Biographic Data
| ID | 4795055 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth W Dunnell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth W |
| FAMILY NAME | Dunnell |
| SIGNATURE | DUNNELL R W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kenyon College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Assassination of Shidibala (r. 1320–1323) Reconsidered: Assumed Identities and Historiographical Erasures in Fourteenth-Century Yuan China
Article Abstract: Has Shidibala been whitewashed by literati officials, court historians, and later scholars? Who was Tegshi, leader of the assassination plot? What was his relationship to the hated minister Temüder, to Shidibala's empress Sukebala, and to Shidibala's successor, Yisün-Temür? This article seeks to answer these questions in an attempt to show how the political agency of this Mongol qa'an has been framed or obscured in Yuan sources.…
The Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature: Daoist Master Changchun's Journey to the West
The Rise of Chinggis Khan and the United Empire, 1206–1260
The emergence of a Mongol state in succession to the Kereyit khanate led to the creation of the largest land-based empire in history and a new people. The Mongols and their partners deployed and elaborated shared steppe political traditions that valued trade and customized the resources of both steppe and sedentary worlds. Under Chinggis Khan’s successor Ögödei, the mission of sacred world conquest and the ideology, governing mechanisms, and fisc…
Tangut Sources
Tangut script textual and visual sources dating to the late twelfth century and the thirteenth (and beyond), though mostly Buddhist in nature, are promising materials for historians of the culture and politics of the Mongol Empire. The well-known Qara-Qoto collection housed in St. Petersburg, Russia, contains materials dating well beyond 1227, the year the Tangut Xia state fell to Mongol armies. Tangut Buddhist materials are particularly promisin…
The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire
In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries Chinggis Khan and his progeny ruled over two-thirds of Eurasia. Connecting East, West, North and South, the Mongols integrated most of the Old World, promoting unprecedented cross-cultural contacts and triggering the reshuffle of religious, ethnic, and geopolitical identities. The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire studies the Empire holistically in its full Eurasian context, putting the Mongols and …
Remembering Thomas T. Allsen (1940–2019): Medieval Eurasia Reimagined
Remembering Thomas T. Allsen (1940–2019)Medieval Eurasia Reimagined Ruth Dunnell and Michal Biran The passing of Tom Allsen in February of 2019 provides an opportunity for medieval Eurasianists and Mongolists across the globe to review and celebrate their debt to this practitioner of comparative Eurasian history. Allsen's scholarly work constituted a profound paradigm shift that liberated the study of the Mongol Empire from its confines in philol…
John Wolfe Dardess: January 17, 1937–March 31, 2020
John Wolfe DardessJanuary 17, 1937–March 31, 2020 Ruth W. Dunnell On March 31, 2020, the community of Chinese historians lost a distinguished, pioneering, and prolific scholar of Yuan and Ming history with the passing of John Dardess. An active member of the University of Kansas Department of History from 1966 until his retirement in 2002, Dardess was an engaged scholar and mentor up to his death. His lifelong study of the Ming dynasty produced n…
Outside In: "Power, Identity, and the Han Lineage of Jizhou," by Pamela Crossley
Reviewed by: "Outside In: Power, Identity, and the Han Lineage of Jizhou," by Pamela Crossley Shao-yun Yang and Ruth Dunnell Pamela Crossley, "Outside In: Power, Identity, and the Han Lineage of Jizhou," JSYS 43 (2013): 51–89. This article originated as a graduate seminar paper in 1981. While Crossley's research refocused on the Qing, she retained a strong interest in the Liao and presented a reconstructed and updated version of the paper at the …
The Great State of White and High: Buddhism and State Formation in Eleventh-Century Xia
"A major contribution to our understanding of the rise of the Tangut as a cultural and political unity." -Studies of Central and East Asian Religions"Ruth Dunnell's long-awaited book on Buddhism and Tangut state formation expands on themes raised in her earlier work on Tangut history, in particular, the place of Buddhism in the early Xia state officially founded by Li (Weiming) Yuanhao in 1038 and the role of the empress dowager regents in preser…
The Anxi Principality: [Un]Making a Muslim Mongol Prince in Northwest China during the Yuan Dynasty
Linda Cooke Johnson. Women of the Conquest Dynasties: Gender and Identity in Liao and Jin China
Journal Article Linda Cooke Johnson. Women of the Conquest Dynasties: Gender and Identity in Liao and Jin China. Get access Linda Cooke Johnson. Women of the Conquest Dynasties: Gender and Identity in Liao and Jin China.Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. 2011. Pp. xxxiii, 254. $52.00. Ruth W. Dunnell Ruth W. Dunnell Kenyon College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 1…
Hok-lam Chan: January 26, 1938–June 1, 2011
Hok-lam Chan January 26, 1938–June 1, 2011 Joseph Kam Wah Siu, Ruth W. Dunnell, and John W. Dardess After struggling with a chronic heart condition for several years, Hok-lam Chan passed away suddenly on June 1, 2011—just five days prior to the long-scheduled elective surgery intended to extend his life. Generally regarded as having been among the most outstanding authorities on China during the complex age of its contestations with the conquest …
New Qing Imperial History: The Making of Inner Asian Empire at Qing Chengde
New Qing Imperial History uses the Manchu summer capital of Chengde and associated architecture, art and ritual activity as the focus for an exploration of the importance of Inner Asia and Tibet to the Qing Empire (1636-1911). Well-known contributors argue that the Qing was not simply another Chinese dynasty, but was deeply engaged in Inner Asia not only militarily, but culturally, politically and ideologically.Emphasizing the diverse range of pe…
In Search of Genghis Khan. Produced by Tim Severin. Princeton, N. J: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1993. VHS format. 54 minutes. $149.99; rental $75.00
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Locating the Tangut Military Establishment: Uraqai (Wulahai) and the Heishui Zhenyan Army
(1992). Locating the Tangut Military Establishment: Uraqai (Wulahai) and the Heishui Zhenyan Army. Monumenta Serica: Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 219-234
Locating the Tangut Military Establishment: Uraqai (Wulahai) and the Heishui Zhenyan Army
(1992). Locating the Tangut Military Establishment: Uraqai (Wulahai) and the Heishui Zhenyan Army. Monumenta Serica: Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 219-234
In Search of Genghis Khan. Produced by Tim Severin. Princeton, N. J: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1993. VHS format. 54 minutes. $149.99; rental $75.00
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
New Qing Imperial History: The Making of Inner Asian Empire at Qing Chengde
New Qing Imperial History uses the Manchu summer capital of Chengde and associated architecture, art and ritual activity as the focus for an exploration of the importance of Inner Asia and Tibet to the Qing Empire (1636-1911). Well-known contributors argue that the Qing was not simply another Chinese dynasty, but was deeply engaged in Inner Asia not only militarily, but culturally, politically and ideologically.Emphasizing the diverse range of pe…
Hok-lam Chan: January 26, 1938–June 1, 2011
Hok-lam Chan January 26, 1938–June 1, 2011 Joseph Kam Wah Siu, Ruth W. Dunnell, and John W. Dardess After struggling with a chronic heart condition for several years, Hok-lam Chan passed away suddenly on June 1, 2011—just five days prior to the long-scheduled elective surgery intended to extend his life. Generally regarded as having been among the most outstanding authorities on China during the complex age of its contestations with the conquest …
Linda Cooke Johnson. Women of the Conquest Dynasties: Gender and Identity in Liao and Jin China
Journal Article Linda Cooke Johnson. Women of the Conquest Dynasties: Gender and Identity in Liao and Jin China. Get access Linda Cooke Johnson. Women of the Conquest Dynasties: Gender and Identity in Liao and Jin China.Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. 2011. Pp. xxxiii, 254. $52.00. Ruth W. Dunnell Ruth W. Dunnell Kenyon College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 1…
The Anxi Principality: [Un]Making a Muslim Mongol Prince in Northwest China during the Yuan Dynasty
The Great State of White and High: Buddhism and State Formation in Eleventh-Century Xia
"A major contribution to our understanding of the rise of the Tangut as a cultural and political unity." -Studies of Central and East Asian Religions"Ruth Dunnell's long-awaited book on Buddhism and Tangut state formation expands on themes raised in her earlier work on Tangut history, in particular, the place of Buddhism in the early Xia state officially founded by Li (Weiming) Yuanhao in 1038 and the role of the empress dowager regents in preser…
John Wolfe Dardess: January 17, 1937–March 31, 2020
John Wolfe DardessJanuary 17, 1937–March 31, 2020 Ruth W. Dunnell On March 31, 2020, the community of Chinese historians lost a distinguished, pioneering, and prolific scholar of Yuan and Ming history with the passing of John Dardess. An active member of the University of Kansas Department of History from 1966 until his retirement in 2002, Dardess was an engaged scholar and mentor up to his death. His lifelong study of the Ming dynasty produced n…
Outside In: "Power, Identity, and the Han Lineage of Jizhou," by Pamela Crossley
Reviewed by: "Outside In: Power, Identity, and the Han Lineage of Jizhou," by Pamela Crossley Shao-yun Yang and Ruth Dunnell Pamela Crossley, "Outside In: Power, Identity, and the Han Lineage of Jizhou," JSYS 43 (2013): 51–89. This article originated as a graduate seminar paper in 1981. While Crossley's research refocused on the Qing, she retained a strong interest in the Liao and presented a reconstructed and updated version of the paper at the …
Remembering Thomas T. Allsen (1940–2019): Medieval Eurasia Reimagined
Remembering Thomas T. Allsen (1940–2019)Medieval Eurasia Reimagined Ruth Dunnell and Michal Biran The passing of Tom Allsen in February of 2019 provides an opportunity for medieval Eurasianists and Mongolists across the globe to review and celebrate their debt to this practitioner of comparative Eurasian history. Allsen's scholarly work constituted a profound paradigm shift that liberated the study of the Mongol Empire from its confines in philol…
The Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature: Daoist Master Changchun's Journey to the West
The Rise of Chinggis Khan and the United Empire, 1206–1260
The emergence of a Mongol state in succession to the Kereyit khanate led to the creation of the largest land-based empire in history and a new people. The Mongols and their partners deployed and elaborated shared steppe political traditions that valued trade and customized the resources of both steppe and sedentary worlds. Under Chinggis Khan’s successor Ögödei, the mission of sacred world conquest and the ideology, governing mechanisms, and fisc…
Tangut Sources
Tangut script textual and visual sources dating to the late twelfth century and the thirteenth (and beyond), though mostly Buddhist in nature, are promising materials for historians of the culture and politics of the Mongol Empire. The well-known Qara-Qoto collection housed in St. Petersburg, Russia, contains materials dating well beyond 1227, the year the Tangut Xia state fell to Mongol armies. Tangut Buddhist materials are particularly promisin…
The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire
In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries Chinggis Khan and his progeny ruled over two-thirds of Eurasia. Connecting East, West, North and South, the Mongols integrated most of the Old World, promoting unprecedented cross-cultural contacts and triggering the reshuffle of religious, ethnic, and geopolitical identities. The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire studies the Empire holistically in its full Eurasian context, putting the Mongols and …
The Assassination of Shidibala (r. 1320–1323) Reconsidered: Assumed Identities and Historiographical Erasures in Fourteenth-Century Yuan China
Article Abstract: Has Shidibala been whitewashed by literati officials, court historians, and later scholars? Who was Tegshi, leader of the assassination plot? What was his relationship to the hated minister Temüder, to Shidibala's empress Sukebala, and to Shidibala's successor, Yisün-Temür? This article seeks to answer these questions in an attempt to show how the political agency of this Mongol qa'an has been framed or obscured in Yuan sources.…
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