Academic monographs on five Mongol inscriptions. I. Inscription dated 1283: consisting of Mongol and Chinese texts. II. Inscription dated 1288: Chinese text only. III. Inscription dated 1314: consisting of Mongol and Chinese texts. IV. Inscription dated 1316: Chinese text only. V. Inscription dated 1331: Chinese text only. In chapter III, the author refers to the translation of Khan's imperial ordinance and letters of Gioanni di Monte Corvino (1247-1328), an Italian missionery, who reached China at the end of the thirteenth century and was appointed to the first archbishop of Khanbalik, the capital of Yuan. [Read more..]