The Jurchen were a sedentary, Tungus-speaking people living in Manchuria and southeastern Siberia. In the eleventh century there were two groups of Jurchen. One was a little-assimilated group of "raw" tribesmen living more or less the...

The Jurchens (traditional Chinese: 女眞; simplified Chinese: 女真; pinyin: nǚzhēn) were a Tungus people who inhabited the region of Manchuria (Northeast China) until the 17th century, when they became known as the Manchus. They established the Jin...

Premodern Chinese history is so lengthy that even specialists sometimes have difficulty familiarizing themselves with more than a few selected episodes, or dynasties. Much is inevitably neglected in the process, including various transitional dynasties that, arguably, were more pivotal to China's historical development...

Edited by Hoyt Cleveland Tillman and Stephen H. West. Foreword by Herbert Franke. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. Pp.xxi, 385. $17.95.) This volume consists of tableaux vivants of the culture and history of the Chin dynasty (1115-1234 A.D.). The...