Abstract
In this innovative book, Ming China and Its Allies: Imperial Rule in Eurasia, David Robinson presents an exciting new account of the Ming rulership and its indelible connection to the Mongol Empire. Identifying with the Chinggisid legacy, six fifteenth-century Ming emperors made a conscious effort to win the recognition and even allegiance of “men from afar,” the term Robinson uses in the book to refer to foreign leaders or lords. Ming China and Its Allies recasts a range of dynamic relations—rivals, enemies, allies, as well as patron and client, ruler and subject—between the early Ming throne and the “men from afar,” especially contemporary Mongol nobles, in the wider context of a Chinggisid Eurasia ranging from Samarkand to Seoul. These relations reinforced the emperor’s identity as both Son of Heaven and lord of lords at home and abroad. Ming China and Its Allies advances its argument about the shared concept...
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