Hunting Chinggis Khan’s Skull and Soul: Inner Asian Frontiers of Historical Ideology and Racial Imaginations
Since the early 20th century, Chinggis Khan has become an object of desire and repulsion to many nations and individuals in the world. He has been identified by the Japanese as the 13th-century tragic hero Minamoto Yoshitsune, and recognized by the Chinese as ‘the only Chinese who has ever defeated the Europeans’. His virtue and … Read more