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Before the Age of Discovery in the West, Eurasia had always been the main stage of human history. The main theme of the historical development of Eurasia is actually the coexistence, interaction, conflict and integration of nomads and farmers for thousands of years. However, the perspective of Western maritime civilization established since the Age of Discovery and the orthodox view of dynastic history of the Han people have marginalized the nomadic steppe peoples, ignoring the historical fact that nomads once led or triggered many changes in the economy, politics, military, culture and other aspects of Eurasia. Nomads, who once existed as a marginal existence in history, play an active and positive role in this book. Masaaki Sugiyama went beyond the vision centered on Western Europe and China to depict a unique nomadic empire and world history, completely subverting the image of nomads as "barbaric invaders" or "military saboteurs". Therefore, this is a work that breaks the historical perspective of the Central Plains and Western civilization and looks at the Eurasian continent!

"The Mongol Empire and its Long Posterity (Kodansha·Rise and Fall of World History 04)" Why is the Mongol Empire said to be the beginning of world history? How did the galloping conquerors of the Eurasian steppe view themselves? Why is the image of the Mongol Empire always negative in Russia and Europe? The Russian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the Mughal Empire, the Ming and Qing Empire all inherited the Mongolian heritage? Is there still any connection with the Mongol Empire in today's era?

This book is a volume of the "Liao, Western Xia, Jin, and Yuan" series of "China's History" published by Kodansha in Japan. This volume is written by Masaaki Sugiyama, an expert in this research field in Japanese academic circles, and highly recommended by Professor Yao of Fudan University. It directly involves the history of about five hundred years from the second half of the 9th century to the end of the 14th century. The author does not present the history of China from the 10th to the 14th century AD according to the main line of historical changes of "Tang - Five Dynasties - Two Song Dynasties - Yuan" as Chinese people are usually accustomed to accept; on the contrary, the Xia, Liao and Jin, which many people take for granted as blocking and destroying the great cause of national unification that should have been achieved by the two Song Dynasties, are no longer just Several dissonant variations or interludes that appear in the musical drama all play an active and positive role in this book. They run through the process of Chinese history from the Tang Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty. The author believes that the entire history involved in this book is the beginning of the six hundred years of encounter and confrontation between the world history of Eurasia and the history of China.