Igor de Rachewiltz, PhD (ANU), Doct. h.c. (Rome), FAHA
Visiting Fellow, Division of Pacific and Asian History
Email: ider@coombs.anu.edu.au
Biographical Statement
I am at present completing the last volume in the Yüan Biographical Project series, viz. an annotated translation of the thirteenth- century Mongolian epic chronicle known as the Secret History of the Mongols. The preparation of this volume is sponsored by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange of Taiwan. The work should be completed by the end of 2002.
Research Interests
Political and cultural history of China and Mongolia in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; East-West political and cultural contacts, especially in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Sino-Mongolian philology.
Key Publications
- 'The Hsi-yu lu by Yeh-lü Ch'u-ts'ai', Monumenta Serica, 21, 1-128, 1962.
- Papal Envoys to the Great Khans, Faber & Faber, London, 1971.
- Index to the Secret History of the Mongols, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1972.
- 'The Preclassical Mongolian Version of the Hsiao-ching', Zentralasiatische Studien, 16, 7-109, 1982.
- (with May Wang) Repertory of Proper Names in Yüan Literary Sources, 3 vols, SMC Publishing Inc., Taipei, 1988.
- (ed. with H.L. Chan, C.C. Hsiao and P.W. Geier, with the assistance of M. Wang) In the Service of the Khan: Eminent Personalities of the Early Mongol-Yüan Period (1200-1300), Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1993.
- (with M. Wang, C.C. Hsiao and S. Rivers) Repertory of Proper Names in Yüan Literary Sources. Supplement, SMC Publishing Inc., Taipei, 1996.
- The Mongolian Tantur Version of the Bodhicaryàvatàra, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1996.
- F. Wood's, Did Marco Polo Go To China?, A Critical Appraisal
Career Highlights
Fellow, Department of Far Eastern History, ANU (1965-67); Senior Fellow, Division of Pacific and Asian History, ANU (1967-94); Visiting Professor, Rome University (1996, 1999, 2001); Vice-President, International Congress of Mongolists (1992-2001).
