The Khitan people, who have now disappeared for a long time, were an important group during the medieval period in East and Central Asia. Despite having established the Liao Dynasty and the Qara Khitai states, their language and script were forgotten following the Mongol conquests and they were largely assimilated by the Mongols. As a matter of fact, Yelü Chucai was perhaps the most famous Khitan of his time, and in modern times, studies on Yelü Chucai surpass those on Abaoji, the founder of the Liao dynasty. He has been presented as a great intellectual by his Chinese, Mongol and Khitan contemporaries as well as modern historians. However, this article aims to demonstrate that there was nothing extraordinary about a Khitan being on par wit...
In this thesis, I examine the tombs of Khitan nobles in the Liao Empire (907-1125 CE), established b...
Pierre MARSONE : The Khitan (Liao) dynasty : a double identity. In spite of its significance for his...
The Mongols have a long tradition of oral literature. About the first half of the nineteenth century...
The Khitan people, who have now disappeared for a long time, were an important group during the medi...
The authors review the past century of Khitan studies in Hungary and introduce the latest achievemen...
Khitan Large and Small Scripts modelled on Chinese characters were created to record the Khitan lang...
In this article I am surveying several possible loanwords from Koreanic languages (probably Koguryǒ ...
This article is about an outstanding political figure Yelü Chucai (1189–1242), who was the main adv...
Review of CHINGGELTEI [Qingge’ertai] 清格尔泰, WU Yingzhe 吴英喆 and JIRUHE 吉如何: Qidan xiaozi zai yanjiu 契丹...
In the fourth part of this series of papers the authors investigate the way how the Khitan Small Scr...
At the turn of twelfth and thirteenth centuries, a Mongol chief, Temujin. best-known by his title Ch...
In the first part of this series of papers the author investigates the peculiarities and structure o...
There are several intriguing aspects to theYuanshibiography of Jia Shira (d. c.1268). Two substantia...
This paper reconstructs the Khitan vowel system by analysing materials concerning the Khitan Small S...
如何在论著数量剧增的同时,提高研究的水平,已成为近年来研究者共同关心的问题。本刊特延请邓小南、柳立言、包伟民、刘浦江、何俊等五位学者,就"宋辽金史研究:新视野、新论题、新方法"这一...
In this thesis, I examine the tombs of Khitan nobles in the Liao Empire (907-1125 CE), established b...
Pierre MARSONE : The Khitan (Liao) dynasty : a double identity. In spite of its significance for his...
The Mongols have a long tradition of oral literature. About the first half of the nineteenth century...
The Khitan people, who have now disappeared for a long time, were an important group during the medi...
The authors review the past century of Khitan studies in Hungary and introduce the latest achievemen...
Khitan Large and Small Scripts modelled on Chinese characters were created to record the Khitan lang...
In this article I am surveying several possible loanwords from Koreanic languages (probably Koguryǒ ...
This article is about an outstanding political figure Yelü Chucai (1189–1242), who was the main adv...
Review of CHINGGELTEI [Qingge’ertai] 清格尔泰, WU Yingzhe 吴英喆 and JIRUHE 吉如何: Qidan xiaozi zai yanjiu 契丹...
In the fourth part of this series of papers the authors investigate the way how the Khitan Small Scr...
At the turn of twelfth and thirteenth centuries, a Mongol chief, Temujin. best-known by his title Ch...
In the first part of this series of papers the author investigates the peculiarities and structure o...
There are several intriguing aspects to theYuanshibiography of Jia Shira (d. c.1268). Two substantia...
This paper reconstructs the Khitan vowel system by analysing materials concerning the Khitan Small S...
如何在论著数量剧增的同时,提高研究的水平,已成为近年来研究者共同关心的问题。本刊特延请邓小南、柳立言、包伟民、刘浦江、何俊等五位学者,就"宋辽金史研究:新视野、新论题、新方法"这一...
In this thesis, I examine the tombs of Khitan nobles in the Liao Empire (907-1125 CE), established b...
Pierre MARSONE : The Khitan (Liao) dynasty : a double identity. In spite of its significance for his...
The Mongols have a long tradition of oral literature. About the first half of the nineteenth century...