Nicola Di Cosmo
List of Publications

1982

1.          “Due messaggi sacrificali dei Jin Posteriori.” In Cina, 18 (1982), pp. 117‑129.

1983

2.          “Nuove fonti sulla formazione dello stato mancese, Ia parte, Il Rapporto di Yi Minhwan.” In Catai, II-III (1982-1983), pp. 139-165.

1984

3.          “I rapporti tra Stati Uniti e Cina (1944‑1949) nella storiografia americana.” In Rivista di storia contemporanea, 13.4 (October 1984), pp. 578‑605.  

1986

4.          “Mongolian Topics in the U.S. Military Intelligence Reports.” In Mongolian Studies, 10 (1986), pp. 96‑107.

1987

5.      “Alcune osservazioni sull'accento mancese.” In Aetas Manjurica, 1 (1987), pp. 1‑15.

1989

6.          “A Russian Envoy to Khiva: the Italian Diary of Florio Beneveni.” In Proceedings of the 28th Meeting of the Permanent International  Altaistic Conference, at Venice, Italy, July 1985, ed. Giovanni Stary (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1989), pp. 73‑114.  

7.          “A Manchu Fragment on the Medical Treatment Given by the Italian Jesuit  Giovanni Giuseppe Da Costa to Yin‑ssu, Eighth Son of K'ang‑hsi.” In Religious and Lay Symbolism in the Altaic World and Other Papers. Proceedings of the 27th Meeting of the Permanent International  Altaistic Conference, at Walberberg, Germany, June 1984, ed. Klaus Sagaster (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1989), pp. 100‑108.  

8.          Review of: Coox, Alvin D. Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia 1939. Reviewed in Mongolian Studies, vol. XII (1989), pp. 125‑128.

1990

9.          “A Manchu Patent in the Oriental Collection of the Newark Museum.” In Altaica Osloensia. Proceedings of the 32nd Meeting of the Permanent International  Altaistic Conference, at Oslo, June 1989, ed. Bernt Brendemoen (Oslo, Norwegian University Press, 1990), pp. 103-112.

10.       “A Note on the Tana Route and International Trade in the 15th Century.” In Aspects of Altaic Civilization III. Proceedings of the 30th Meeting of the Permanent International  Altaistic Conference, at Bloomington, Indiana, USA, June 1987, ed. Denis Sinor.  Bloomington: Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies (1990),  pp. 20-32.

11.       Review of: Kane, Daniel. The Sino‑Jurchen ocabulary of the Bureau of Interpreters. Reviewed in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, vol. LIII (1990), pp. 553‑555.

1991

12.        Review of: Cotton, James. Asian Frontier Nationalism: Owen Lattimore and the American Policy Debate. Reviewed in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and  African Studies, vol. LIV (1991), pp. 205‑206.

13.        Review of: Crossley, Pamela K. Orphan Warriors:Three Manchu Generations at the End of the Ch'ing World.  Reviewed in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and  African Studies, vol. LIV (1991), pp. 618‑19.

14.        Review of: Sinor, Denis, ed. The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia . Reviewed in History, 76, no. 247 (June 1991), pp. 259‑60.

15.        Review of: Jagchid, S., and V.J. Symons. Peace, War and Trade along the Great Wall. Reviewed in Central Asiatic Journal, 35.3-4 (1991), pp. 302-305.

1992

16.        Review of: Waldron, Arthur. The Great Wall of China. From History to Myth. Reviewed in History, vol. 77 (1992), pp. 264-5.

1993

17.        Reports from the Northwest: A Selection of Manchu Memorials from Kashgar (1806-1807). Bloomington: Indiana University Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, 1993.

18.        Review of: Tracy, James D., ed. The Political Economy of Merchant Empires. State Power and World Trade 1350-1750. Reviewed in Journal of Asian History, 27.2 (1993), pp. 176-78.

19.        Review of: Farquhar, David M. The Government of China under Mongolian Rule. A  Reference Guide. Reviewed in Mongolian Studies, 16 (1993), pp. 83-92.

20.        Review of: The Academy of Sciences MPR (comp. and ed.). Information Mongolia. Reviewed in Central Asiatic Journal, 37.1-2 (1993), pp. 150-152.

1994

21.        “Ancient Inner Asian Nomads: Their Economic Basis and Its Significance in Chinese History.” In The Journal of Asian Studies, 53.4 (1994), pp. 1092‑1126.

22.      Review of: Bartlett, Beatrice. Monarchs and Ministers. The Grand Council in Mid-Ch'ing China, 1723-1820. Reviewed in Journal of Asian History, 28.2 (1994), pp. 187-189.

23.        Review of: Okada, Hidehiro. Sekaishi no tanjo. Reviewed in Journal of Asian History, 28.1 (1994), pp. 58-59.

1995

24.        On the Tracks of Manchu Culture 1644-1994: 350 Years after the Conquest of Peking . Wiesbaden 1995. Authored with Giovanni Stary, Tatiana A. Pang, and Alessandra Pozzi.

25.        Review of: Chan, Hok-Lam. The Fall of the Jurchen Chin. Wang E's Memoir on Ts'ai-Chou Under the Mongol's Siege (1233-1234). Reviewed in Central Asiatic Journal, 39.1 (1995), pp. 140-142.

26.        Review of: Thomas, Nicholas. Colonialism's Culture: Anthropology, Travel and Government. Reviewed in Journal of Asian History, 29.1 (1995), pp. 82-83.

1996

27.        Between Lapis and Jade: Ancient Cultures of Central Asia . Monographic issue of Anthropology and Archaeology of Eurasia, 34.4 (1996). Edited with Fredrik T. Hiebert.

28.        “Das Kŏnchu mun’gyŏn rok des Yi Minhwan.” In Materialen zur Vorgeschichte der Qing-Dynastie, ed. Giovanni Stary, Wiesbaden (1996). [Transl. of no. 27], pp. 10-22.

29.       “Ancient Xinjiang between Central Asia and China.” In Anthropology & Archeology of Eurasia, 34.4 (1996), pp. 87‑101.

30.        Review of:  Franke, Herbert and Denis Twitchett, eds. Alien Regimes and Border States, 907-1368. Vol. 6 of The Cambridge History of China. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994). Reviewed in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 56.2 (December 1996), pp. 493-508.

31.        Review of: Harrell, Stevan, ed. Cultural Encounters on China 's Ethnic Frontiers. Reviewed in Central Asian Survey, 15.2 (1996), pp. 313-15.

32.        Review of: Dabringhaus, Sabine. Das Qing-Imperium als Vision und Wirklichkeit: Tibet in Laufbahn und Schriften des Song Yun (1752-1835). Reviewed in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, (1996), pp. 187-188.

33.    “Mongolia: VI. Historiography.” In The Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner. New York: Grove's Dictionaries (1996), vol. 21, pp. 884-885.

34.    “Mongolia: VII. Archaeology.” In The Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner. New York: Grove's Dictionaries (1996), vol. 21, pp. 885-886.

35.    “Noin Ula.” In The Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner.  New York: Grove's Dictionaries (1996), vol. 23, pp. 178-179.

1997

36.        “A Set of Manchu Documents Concerning a Khokand Mission to Kashgar (1807).” In Central Asiatic Journal 41.2 (1997), pp. 159-99.

37.        Review of: So Jenny F. and Emma C. Bunker. Traders and Raiders on China's Northern Frontier. Reviewed in Ars Orientalis, vol. 27 (1997), pp. 142-43.

38.        Review of: Zanier, Claudio. Where the Roads Met: East and West in the Silk Production Processes (17th to 19th Century). Reviewed in Isis, vol. 88.1 (1997), pp. 130-31.

39.        Review of: Bregel, Yuri (comp. & ed.) Bibliography of Islamic Central Asia. Reviewed in Central Asiatic Journal, 41.2 (1997), pp. 271-275.

1998

40.        “Qing Colonial Administration in Inner Asia.” In The International History Review,  20.2 (1998), pp. 287‑309.

1999

41.       “The Northern Frontier in Pre‑Imperial China.” In The Cambridge History of Ancient China, ed. Michael Loewe and Edward L. Shaughnessy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1999), pp. 885-966.

42.       “Manchu Shamanic Ceremonies at the Qing Court.” In State and Court Ritual in China, ed. Joseph P. McDermott. Cambridge (1999), pp. 352-98.

43.        “State Formation and Periodization in Inner Asian History.” In Journal of World History, 10.1 (Spring 1999), pp. 1-40.

44.        “New Directions in Inner Asian History: A Review Article.” In Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 42.2 (May 1999), pp. 247-63.

45.        Review of:  Victor H. Mair, ed. The Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Peoples of Eastern Central Asia. 2 vols., Washington, D.C. The Institute for the Study of Man, 1998. Reviewed in Early China, 23-24 (1998-99), pp. 339-52.

46.        Review of: Crossley, Pamela K. The Manchus. Reviewed in Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 42.4 (1999), pp. 589-91.

47.        Review of: Janhunen, Juha. Manchuria: an ethnic history. Reviewed in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 62.1 (1999), pp. 180-82.

48.        Review of: Bunker, Emma C. with Trudy S. Kawami, Katheryn M. Linduff, and Wu En. Ancient Bronzes of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections. Reviewed in Bulletin of the Asia Institute, 13 (1999), pp. 169-71.

2000

49.        “Ancient City-States of the Tarim Basin.” In A Comparative Study of Thirty City-State Cultures, ed. Mogens Herman Hansen. Copenhagen (2000), pp. 393-407.

50.        “Technology and Manchu Power: Reflections on the ‘Military Revolution’ in Seventeenth-Century China.” [Abstract only] In Proceedings of the the 19th International Congress of Historical Sciences (Oslo 6-13 August, 2000).

51.        “The Qing Dynasty and the Sinicization Thesis; On Evelyn Rawski's The Last Emperors: A Social History of Qing Imperial Institutions, and Pamela Crossley's A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology.” In New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, 2.2 (December 2000), pp. 149-156.

2001

52.        “European Technology and Manchu Power: Reflections on the ‘Military Revolution’ in Seventeenth-Century China.”  In Making Sense of Global History, ed. Sølvi Sogner. Oslo: University Press (2001), pp. 119-39.

53.        “La guerra nella storia cinese.” In Palomar,  4 (2001), pp. 24-32.

54.        Review of:  Soucek, Svat. A History of Inner Asia . Reviewed in New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 3.1 (June 2001), pp. 151-53.

2002

55.        Ancient China and Its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

56.        Warfare in Inner Asian History (500—1800), ed. Nicola Di Cosmo.  Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2002.

57.        “Military Aspects of the Manchu Wars Against the Caqars.” In Inner Asian Warfare (500–1800), ed. Nicola Di Cosmo. Leiden: Brill (2002), pp. 337-67.

58.        “Introduction: Inner Asian Ways of Warfare in Historical Perspective.” In Inner Asian Warfare (500–1800), ed. Nicola Di Cosmo. Leiden: Brill (2002), pp. 1-29.

59.        Review of:  Rhoads, Edward J. M. Manchus and Han: Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China, 1821-1928.  Reviewed in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 65.2 (June 2002), pp. 457-58.

60.        Review of:  Mallory, J.P. and Victor H. Mair. The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West. Reviewed in Journal of Anthropological Research, 58.2 (2002), pp. 279-281.

61.        “The Origin and Rise of the Xiongnu Empire.” In The Turks, eds. Hasan Celâl Güzel, Cem Oğuz, and Osman Karatay. Ankara: Yeni Türkiye Yayinlari (2002), pp. 217-27.

2003

62.        A Documentary History of Manchu-Mongol Relations (1616-1626). Authored with Dalizhabu Bao. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2003.

63.        Political Frontiers, Ethnic Boundaries and Human Geographies in Chinese History. Edited with Don J. Wyatt. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.

64.        “Kirghiz Nomads on the Qing Frontier: Tribute, Trade, or Gift-Exchange?” In Political Frontiers, Ethnic Boundaries and Human Geographies in Chinese History, ed. Nicola Di Cosmo and Don J. Wyatt. London: RoutledgeCurzon (2003), pp. 351-72.

65.        Review of:  Pulleyblank, Edwin G. Central Asia and Non-Chinese Peoples of Ancient China. Reviewed in The International History Review, 25.1 (2003), pp. 126-28.

66.        Review of:  Allsen, Thomas T. Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia . Reviewed in Central Asiatic Journal, 47.1 (2003), pp. 128-30.

2004

67.        “Did Guns Matter? Firearms and the Qing Formation.” In The Qing Formation in World-Historical Time, ed. Lynn Struve. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press (2004), pp. 121-166.

68.        Review of:  Golden, Peter B. Nomads and Their Neighbours in the Russian Steppe. Reviewed in Central Asiatic Journal, 48 (2004), pp. 142-44.

2005

69.        “Mongols and Merchants on the Black Sea Frontier (13th—14th c.): Convergences and Conflicts.” In Turco-Mongol Nomads and Sedentary Societies, eds. Reuven Amitai and Michal Biran. Leiden: Brill (2005), pp. 391-424.

70.        “Venice, Genoa, the Golden Horde, and the Limits of European Expansion in Asia.” In Il Codice Cumanico e il Suo Mondo, eds. Peter Schreiner and Felicitas Schmieder. Roma: Storia e Letteratura (2005), pp. 279-296.

71.        Review of: Franke, Herbert  Krieg und Krieger im chinesischen Mittelalter (12. bis 14. Jahrhundert): Drei Studien. Reviewed in The International History Review, 25.1 (2005), pp. 119-122.

2006

72.       “A Note on the Authorship of Dzengšeo’s Beye-I cooha bade yabuha babe ejehe bithe.” In Tumen jalafun jecen akū: Manchu Studies in Honour of Giovanni Stary, eds. Alessandra Pozzi, Juha Antero Janhunen, and Michael Weiers. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag (2006), pp. 73-78.

73.    Review of: Vásáry, István. Cumans and Tatars: Oriental Military in the Pre-Ottoman Balkans, 1185-1365. Reviewed in Central Asiatic Journal, 50.1 (2006), pp. 151-153.

74.       Diary of a Manchu Soldier in Seventeenth-Century China. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2006.

75.       “The Origins of the Great Wall.” In The Silk Road, 4.1 (2006), pp. 14-19.

76.         “Competing Strategies of Great Khan Legitimacy in the Context of the Chaqar-Manchu Wars (c. 1620-1634).” In Imperial Statecraft: Political forms and techniques of governance in Inner Asia , Sixth-Twentieth Centuries, ed. David Sneath. Washington: Western Washington University, (2006), pp. 245-263.

77.   “Circostanze e limiti dell'espansione veneziana in Oriente nel Trecento.” In Venezia, l'altro e l'altrove, ed. Susanne Winter. Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura (2006), pp. 1-22.

78.       “Review Article: A Comparative Model of War and State Formation.”  In The International History Review  XXVIII.4 (December 2006), pp. 794-97.

79.       “Liao History and Society." In Gilded Splendor: Treasures of China's Liao Empire (907-1125), ed. Hsueh-man Shen. New York: Asia Society (2006), pp. 15-23.

2007

80.       Review of: Millward, James A., Ruth W. Dunnell, Mark C. Elliot, and Philippe Foret, eds. New Qing Imperial History: The Making of Inner Asian Empire at Qing Chengde. Reviewed in The Journal of Asian Studies, 66.2 (2007), pp. 550-552.

81.    “Marital Politics on the Manchu-Mongol Frontier in the Early Seventeenth Century.” In The Chinese State at the Borders, ed. Diana Lary. Vancouver:  UBC Press (2007), pp. 57-73.

2008

82.       "La Cina, i nomadi e i mercanti." In Cina: alla Corte degli Imperatori. Capolavori mai visti dalla tradizione Han all'eleganza Tang (25-907), ed. Sabrina Rastelli. Firenze: Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi (2008), pp. 53-59.

 83.       Review of: Chang, Chun-shu, The Rise of the Chinese Empire, 2 vols. Reviewed in The Journal of Asian Studies, 67.1 (2008), pp. 263-266.