The Secret History of the Mongols ─ A Mongolian Epic Chronicle of the Thirteenth Century

A specialist on the medieval Mongols and the Yuan Dynasty of China, Rachewiltz (culture, history, and language; Australian National U.) begins this supplemental volume by describing the additions and revisions to the 2004 first edition of his translation of Yuan chao bi shi for the 2006 second edition and its corrected reprint that same year. The changes take account of works subsequently published or unknown to him at the time, and of changes in his thinking on such matters as the date and authorship of the Secret History. The second part simply lists corrections of typographical and other errors. The bibliography contains many new titles, augmenting the already extensive bibliography in the second volume. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Igor De Rachewiltz, Ph.D. (1961), Australian National University, is Adjunct Professor and Research Associate in the School of Culture, History and Language of that university. A leading authority on the mediaeval Mongols and the Yuan Dynasty of China he is the author of numerous publications on Sino-Mongolistics, his major work being the annotated translation of the famous 13th century epic chronicle known as the SecretHistory of the Mongols (Brill, 2004, 2006).