Christopher P Atwood
Biographic Data
| ID | 504602 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher P Atwood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher P |
| FAMILY NAME | Atwood |
| SIGNATURE | ATWOOD C P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9270-8019 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Slaves of the Emperor: Service, privilege, and status in the Qing Eight Banners, written by David C. Porter
Some Place Names in the Beijing Area as Found in the Secret History of the Mongols
The Central Eurasian Dawn of Everything
The Scythian Empire is Beckwith’s latest effort to redefine the European civilizational legacy as Central Eurasian, from its feudal origins to the development of philosophy, science, politics, and religion. Beckwith proposes that a Scythian Empire, spanning from the Mediterranean to the Ganges to the Yellow River, played a central role in shaping ancient civilizations, challenging conventional views of history. The Scythian religion is interprete…
The Empire of the Great Khan: The Yuan Ulus, 1260–1368
The Yuan Dynasty was defined by Qubilai Qa’an’s adoption of many elements of Chinese administration and his successful conquest of south China; however, the qa’an’s later decades were spent in efforts at further conquests that strained even his immense wealth and delayed the integration of the newly conquered territories. Under his successor and grandson, Temür, the empire turned to a more sustainable style of laissez-faire rule. From Temür’s dea…
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 …
Orhon Myadar, Mobility and Displacement: Nomadism, Identity and Postcolonial Narratives in Mongolia
A secular empire? Estates,nom, and religions in the Mongol empire
Recent work in religious studies has emphasized how European colonial empires used the defining and constructing of religions and secularism as tools of rule. This article explores parallel processes in the Mongol empire (1206-1368) where 'religion-making' occurred in three areas: 1) a precise and legal definition of professional service estates among the conquered peoples that included the clergies of designated religions; 2) a broad and impreci…
New Approaches to Ilkhanid History
As the title implies, New Approaches to Ilkhanid History explores new methodologies and avenues of research for the Mongol state in the Middle East. Although the majority of the Ilkhanate was situated in Iran, this volume considers other regions within the state and moves away from focusing on the center and the Ilkhanid court. New consideration is given to the source material, particularly how they have been composed, but also how the sources ca…
Three Yuan Administrative Units in Marco Polo: Kinǰin Talas, Silingǰiu, and Kungčang
Camp and audience scenes in late iron age rock drawings from Khawtsgait, Mongolia
Peter Jackson. The Mongols and the Islamic World: From Conquest to Conversion
Peter Jackson’s The Mongols and the Islamic World: From Conquest to Conversion is a distinguished summation of a career spent researching the eastern reaches of the Islamic world and the western reaches of the Mongol empires. Jackson evinces the effortless erudition and casual wit that seems the enviable prerogative of English scholarship. The Mongol empire is a colossal topic in the midst of a boom in scholarship; the current work has taken twel…
Buddhists as Natives: Changing Positions in the Religious Ecology of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty
Within the Chinese religious market, Daoists and Confucians have often attempted to stigmatize Buddhism as a foreign religion. In the early Mongol Yuan dynasty (1206-1368), Daoist circulation of anti-Buddhist tracts such as Laozi huahu jing gave new life to these accusations, even as Buddhist and Daoist clergy came in conflict over government patronage and tax exemptions. Yet after the death of Qubilai Qa’an in 1294, conflicts over the applicatio…
Marco Polo Was in China, written by Hans Ulrich Vogel
Pu'a's Boast and Doqolqu's Death: Historiography of a Hidden Scandal in the Mongol Conquest of the Jin
Imperial Itinerance and Mobile Pastoralism: The State and Mobility in Medieval Inner Asia
Mobility in pastoral societies has often been treated as either a necessity for efficient pastoral production or else as a method of avoiding state power. Yet both the examples of itinerance in medieval Europe and the attested itineraries of medieval Inner Asian rulers suggest that power projection, not power avoidance, was a key component of Turco-Mongolian imperial mobility. By using new historico-geographical evidence, the itineraries of sever…
Historiography and transformation of ethnic identity in the Mongol Empire: The Öng’üt case
Throughout their history, Inner Asian empires used familiar imperial institutions to rapidly impose new ethnic designations and their attendant languages, such as ‘Türk’ or ‘Mongol’, on their subjects. The swiftness of this integration into new ethnic designations should not be taken to mean that this integration was painless, however. In the well-documented Mongol empire, for example, this incorporation was extremely traumatic for many Inner Asi…
James Boyd. Japanese-Mongolian Relations, 1873–1945: Faith, Race and Strategy
JAMES BOYD. Japanese-Mongolian Relations, 1873–1945: Faith, Race and Strategy." Asian Studies Review, 37(1), pp. 102–103
Voglio sedurre quelli che stanno di là’: Same-Sex Tourism and the Manufacturing of Queer Elsewheres
This essay examines queer writers’ representations of North Africa, focusing especially on Franco Buffoni’s novel Zamel (2009). In the Maghreb, the same-sex tourist sees a land of primal (s)excess where the norms of home — exclusive heterosexuality, homophobic violence, and monogomous coupling — need no longer apply. Crossing the Mediterranean, this subject hopes to flee the discursive borders (gay versus straight) that supposedly domesticate des…
Subjects and Masters: Uyghurs in the Mongol Empire
The Diary of a Manchu Soldier in Seventeenth-Century China: "My Service in the Army", by Dzengšeo
Governing China's Multiethnic Frontiers
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804057 Upon coming to power in 1949, the Chinese Communist government proclaimed that its stance toward ethnic minorities--who comprise approximately eight percent of China’s population--differed from that of previous regimes and that it would help preserve the linguistic and cultural heritage of the fifty-five official "minority nationalities." However, minority culture suffered widespread destruction in t…
The Mutual-Aid Co-operatives and the Animal Products Trade in Mongolia, 1913-1928
From the first decade of Mongolian independence after 1911, nationalist publicists and officials denounced the dominance of foreign merchants and capital in the Mongolian economy. Officials and historians declared co-operatives to be the road for simultaneous improving the peoples' living standards and also strengthening national independence. Yet examination of statistics and the vigorous debates at the early party congresses and Great Khural me…
Beyond Great Walls: Environment, Identity, and Development on the Chinese Grasslands of Inner Mongolia
Thomas T. Allsen. Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia
Young Mongols and Vigilantes in Inner Mongolia's Interregnum Decades, 1911-1931: Volume 2
In Young Mongols and Vigilantes in Inner Mongolia’s Interregnum Decades, 1911-1931, a vivid narrative of the underground world of pan-Mongolist agitation in China, the author shows how the paradoxical legacy of China’s New Policies reforms left ethnically-based nationalism as the only common denominator for political action. In the turbulent years of China’s warlord republic, educated Mongol nationalists and rural vigilantes sought to unify Inner…
Governing China's Multiethnic Frontiers
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804057 Upon coming to power in 1949, the Chinese Communist government proclaimed that its stance toward ethnic minorities--who comprise approximately eight percent of China’s population--differed from that of previous regimes and that it would help preserve the linguistic and cultural heritage of the fifty-five official "minority nationalities." However, minority culture suffered widespread destruction in t…
Imperial Itinerance and Mobile Pastoralism: The State and Mobility in Medieval Inner Asia
Mobility in pastoral societies has often been treated as either a necessity for efficient pastoral production or else as a method of avoiding state power. Yet both the examples of itinerance in medieval Europe and the attested itineraries of medieval Inner Asian rulers suggest that power projection, not power avoidance, was a key component of Turco-Mongolian imperial mobility. By using new historico-geographical evidence, the itineraries of sever…
Buddhism and Popular Ritual in Mongolian Religion: A Reexamination of the Fire Cult
At the time of publication, author Christopher P. Atwood was affiliated with Indiana University. Currently, he is a faculty member in the East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department at the University of Pennsylvania
Historiography and transformation of ethnic identity in the Mongol Empire: The Öng’üt case
Throughout their history, Inner Asian empires used familiar imperial institutions to rapidly impose new ethnic designations and their attendant languages, such as ‘Türk’ or ‘Mongol’, on their subjects. The swiftness of this integration into new ethnic designations should not be taken to mean that this integration was painless, however. In the well-documented Mongol empire, for example, this incorporation was extremely traumatic for many Inner Asi…
A secular empire? Estates,nom, and religions in the Mongol empire
Recent work in religious studies has emphasized how European colonial empires used the defining and constructing of religions and secularism as tools of rule. This article explores parallel processes in the Mongol empire (1206-1368) where 'religion-making' occurred in three areas: 1) a precise and legal definition of professional service estates among the conquered peoples that included the clergies of designated religions; 2) a broad and impreci…
New Approaches to Ilkhanid History
As the title implies, New Approaches to Ilkhanid History explores new methodologies and avenues of research for the Mongol state in the Middle East. Although the majority of the Ilkhanate was situated in Iran, this volume considers other regions within the state and moves away from focusing on the center and the Ilkhanid court. New consideration is given to the source material, particularly how they have been composed, but also how the sources ca…
Pu'a's Boast and Doqolqu's Death: Historiography of a Hidden Scandal in the Mongol Conquest of the Jin
The Mutual-Aid Co-operatives and the Animal Products Trade in Mongolia, 1913-1928
From the first decade of Mongolian independence after 1911, nationalist publicists and officials denounced the dominance of foreign merchants and capital in the Mongolian economy. Officials and historians declared co-operatives to be the road for simultaneous improving the peoples' living standards and also strengthening national independence. Yet examination of statistics and the vigorous debates at the early party congresses and Great Khural me…
Buddhism and Popular Ritual in Mongolian Religion: A Reexamination of the Fire Cult
At the time of publication, author Christopher P. Atwood was affiliated with Indiana University. Currently, he is a faculty member in the East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department at the University of Pennsylvania
A Romantic Vision of National Regeneration: Some Unpublished Works of the Inner Mongolian Poet and Essayist, Saichungga
Works of the poet and essayist Saichungga, a founder of modern Inner Mongolian literature, written in 1945 gave voice to the Japanese-sponsored nationalist mobilisation in Inner Mongolia during the final months of World War II. This article presents one unpublished essay and eight poems, reading them in the light of Saichungga's cultural nationalism, which focused on moral renewal and scientific and cultural revival. Expressing the supersession o…
Inner Mongolian Nationalism in the 1920s: A Survey of Documentary Information
Inner Mongolian Nationalism in the 1920s: A Survey of Documentary Information
Worshiping Grace: The Language of Loyalty in Qing Mongolia
Late Imperial China - Volume 21, Number 2, December 2000
The Last Mongol Prince
BOOK REVIEWS 195 other side of the pass)’. Leaving aside the minor point that lingbei means no more than ‘north of the pass,’ it should be mentioned that Chinese maps suggest that the term was used during the entire Yuan period (cf., inter alia, Zhongguo gudai lishi ditu ji , Chengdu, 1981, maps 29–30). But even if the Chinese term did not change until 1312 (changed from what? Menggu?), it is beside the point in a book like this; what matters her…
Thomas T. Allsen. Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia
Young Mongols and Vigilantes in Inner Mongolia's Interregnum Decades, 1911-1931: Volume 2
In Young Mongols and Vigilantes in Inner Mongolia’s Interregnum Decades, 1911-1931, a vivid narrative of the underground world of pan-Mongolist agitation in China, the author shows how the paradoxical legacy of China’s New Policies reforms left ethnically-based nationalism as the only common denominator for political action. In the turbulent years of China’s warlord republic, educated Mongol nationalists and rural vigilantes sought to unify Inner…
Young Mongols and Vigilantes in Inner Mongolia's Interregnum Decades, 1911-1931: Volume 1
In Young Mongols and Vigilantes in Inner Mongolia’s Interregnum Decades, 1911-1931, a vivid narrative of the underground world of pan-Mongolist agitation in China, the author shows how the paradoxical legacy of China’s New Policies reforms left ethnically-based nationalism as the only common denominator for political action. In the turbulent years of China’s warlord republic, educated Mongol nationalists and rural vigilantes sought to unify Inner…
Young Mongols and Vigilantes in Inner Mongolia's Interregnum Decades, 1911-1931 (2 vols.)
In Young Mongols and Vigilantes in Inner Mongolia’s Interregnum Decades, 1911-1931, a vivid narrative of the underground world of pan-Mongolist agitation in China, the author shows how the paradoxical legacy of China’s New Policies reforms left ethnically-based nationalism as the only common denominator for political action. In the turbulent years of China’s warlord republic, educated Mongol nationalists and rural vigilantes sought to unify Inner…
The Mutual-Aid Co-operatives and the Animal Products Trade in Mongolia, 1913-1928
From the first decade of Mongolian independence after 1911, nationalist publicists and officials denounced the dominance of foreign merchants and capital in the Mongolian economy. Officials and historians declared co-operatives to be the road for simultaneous improving the peoples' living standards and also strengthening national independence. Yet examination of statistics and the vigorous debates at the early party congresses and Great Khural me…
Beyond Great Walls: Environment, Identity, and Development on the Chinese Grasslands of Inner Mongolia
Governing China's Multiethnic Frontiers
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804057 Upon coming to power in 1949, the Chinese Communist government proclaimed that its stance toward ethnic minorities--who comprise approximately eight percent of China’s population--differed from that of previous regimes and that it would help preserve the linguistic and cultural heritage of the fifty-five official "minority nationalities." However, minority culture suffered widespread destruction in t…
Subjects and Masters: Uyghurs in the Mongol Empire
The Diary of a Manchu Soldier in Seventeenth-Century China: "My Service in the Army", by Dzengšeo
Voglio sedurre quelli che stanno di là’: Same-Sex Tourism and the Manufacturing of Queer Elsewheres
This essay examines queer writers’ representations of North Africa, focusing especially on Franco Buffoni’s novel Zamel (2009). In the Maghreb, the same-sex tourist sees a land of primal (s)excess where the norms of home — exclusive heterosexuality, homophobic violence, and monogomous coupling — need no longer apply. Crossing the Mediterranean, this subject hopes to flee the discursive borders (gay versus straight) that supposedly domesticate des…
James Boyd. Japanese-Mongolian Relations, 1873–1945: Faith, Race and Strategy
JAMES BOYD. Japanese-Mongolian Relations, 1873–1945: Faith, Race and Strategy." Asian Studies Review, 37(1), pp. 102–103
Historiography and transformation of ethnic identity in the Mongol Empire: The Öng’üt case
Throughout their history, Inner Asian empires used familiar imperial institutions to rapidly impose new ethnic designations and their attendant languages, such as ‘Türk’ or ‘Mongol’, on their subjects. The swiftness of this integration into new ethnic designations should not be taken to mean that this integration was painless, however. In the well-documented Mongol empire, for example, this incorporation was extremely traumatic for many Inner Asi…
Marco Polo Was in China, written by Hans Ulrich Vogel
Pu'a's Boast and Doqolqu's Death: Historiography of a Hidden Scandal in the Mongol Conquest of the Jin
Imperial Itinerance and Mobile Pastoralism: The State and Mobility in Medieval Inner Asia
Mobility in pastoral societies has often been treated as either a necessity for efficient pastoral production or else as a method of avoiding state power. Yet both the examples of itinerance in medieval Europe and the attested itineraries of medieval Inner Asian rulers suggest that power projection, not power avoidance, was a key component of Turco-Mongolian imperial mobility. By using new historico-geographical evidence, the itineraries of sever…
Buddhists as Natives: Changing Positions in the Religious Ecology of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty
Within the Chinese religious market, Daoists and Confucians have often attempted to stigmatize Buddhism as a foreign religion. In the early Mongol Yuan dynasty (1206-1368), Daoist circulation of anti-Buddhist tracts such as Laozi huahu jing gave new life to these accusations, even as Buddhist and Daoist clergy came in conflict over government patronage and tax exemptions. Yet after the death of Qubilai Qa’an in 1294, conflicts over the applicatio…
Camp and audience scenes in late iron age rock drawings from Khawtsgait, Mongolia
Peter Jackson. The Mongols and the Islamic World: From Conquest to Conversion
Peter Jackson’s The Mongols and the Islamic World: From Conquest to Conversion is a distinguished summation of a career spent researching the eastern reaches of the Islamic world and the western reaches of the Mongol empires. Jackson evinces the effortless erudition and casual wit that seems the enviable prerogative of English scholarship. The Mongol empire is a colossal topic in the midst of a boom in scholarship; the current work has taken twel…
New Approaches to Ilkhanid History
As the title implies, New Approaches to Ilkhanid History explores new methodologies and avenues of research for the Mongol state in the Middle East. Although the majority of the Ilkhanate was situated in Iran, this volume considers other regions within the state and moves away from focusing on the center and the Ilkhanid court. New consideration is given to the source material, particularly how they have been composed, but also how the sources ca…
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