New in the field: January-March 2017
The Silk Road 14 (2016), ed. by Daniel C. Waugh, http://www.silkroadfoundation.org/newsletter/vol14/
Brook, Timothy, “Nine Sloughs: Profiling the Climate History of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, 1260-1644,” Journal of Chinese History, 1:1 (January 2017), pp. 27-58.
De Nicola, Bruno, Women in Mongol Iran: The Khatuns, 1206-1335 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016), ISBN: 9781474415477
Iiyama, Tomoyasu, “Steles and Status: Evidence for the Emergence of a New Elite in Yuan North China,” Journal of Chinese History 1:1 (January 2017), pp. 3-26. doi: 10.1017/jch.2016.1
Isahaya, Yoichi and Jyuh Fuh Lin, “Entangled Representation of Heaven: A Chinese Divination Text from a Tenth-Century Dunhuang Fragment (P. 4071),” Historia Scientiarum 26/3 (2017): 153–171.
Isahaya, Yoichi and Mitsuaki Endo, "Persian Transcription of Yuan Chinese in the History of China of the Jāmi‘ al-Tawārīkh (Ms. Istanbul, Topkapı Sarayı, Hazine 1654)," The Economic Review 経済研究 9 (2017), pp. 123–161.
Hope, Michael, “‘The Pillars of State:’ Some Notes on the Qarachu Begs and the Kešikten in the Īl-Khānate (1256-1335),” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland 27:2 (April 2017), pp. 181-199. doi: 10.1017/S1356186316000523
Mukai, Masaki, "'Muslim Diaspora’ in Yuan China: A Comparative Analysis of Islamic Tombstones from the Southeast Coast," Asian Review of World Histories 4:2 (July 2016), pp. 231-256. doi: 10.12773/arwh.2016.4.1.231
Waugh, Daniel C., “The ‘owl of misfortune’ or the ‘phoenix of prosperity’? Re-thinking the impact of the Mongols,” Journal of Eurasian Studies 8:1 (January 2017), pp. 10-21. doi: 10.1016/j.euras.2016.11.004