Abstract
From the Greek Amazons to China’s Hua Mulan and its Disney adaptation, women warriors have caught the imagination of people across time, space and cultures.¹ In the Mongol context, the prowess of the Mongol women, who not only played a pivotal role in the politics and economy of the empire, far greater than that of their sedentary counterparts, but would also ride horses, hunt, and occasionally even fight, greatly impressed their sedentary subjects and neighbors.²The most renowned Mongol female warrior, perhaps the only one who truly deserved the title of Mongol general, is Qutulun (d. ca. 1307). A great-great
Original language | American English |
---|---|
Title of host publication | Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia |
Subtitle of host publication | generals, merchants, intellectuals |
Editors | Michal Biran, Jonathan Brack, Francesca Fiaschetti |
Place of Publication | Oakland, California |
Publisher | University of California Press |
Pages | 64-82 |
Number of pages | 19 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780520970786, 0520970780 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780520298743, 0520298748, 9780520298750, 0520298756 |
State | Published - 2020 |