link: Perceptions of Genghis in Mongolia today
Worth a link: an interview by Harvard Asia Pacific Review with Dr Ts. Tsetsenbileg, a sociologist who researches what the figure of Genghis Khan means in Mongolia today. How deep is he in the Mongolian psyche — after decades of the negative Communist image of him? Where does he help, as a social tool, with the tensions between traditional values and modernisation?
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hapr/winter00_millenium/Genghis.html
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I'm putting thought into this. Maybe the Prawdin. More general and big scope. It might be a great background for Mr Weatherford's two. With his, I guess they are chronological in that Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World is followed by The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire that goes on into the more obscure regions of the 15th century. Centuries that should be less obscure, after Prawdin: I like how he does those tail-end centuries when the steppe is on the back foot again.Saga women and steppe women: I'm with you on that. I like to say, if I had to be a medieval woman I'd be either Norse or steppe. Which I say on the strength of the sagas. I think there are commonalities and you ought to tell people about your pet theory.
W&P: you're more a third through already.
Thanks for your company. :)