Ebook Download: *Genghis Khan's Struggle for World Domination*
*Genghis Khan’s Struggle for World Domination* —— A Chinese Vernacular Version of *The Secret History of the Mongols*, is a historical classic that documents the formation, development, and rise of the Mongol people. It is the earliest existing historical and literary epic of the Mongol nation, consisting of ten volumes in the main collection and two additional volumes in the continuation.
This work not only chronicles the legends of its characters and the rise of a nation but also encompasses extensive records of social transformation, cultural customs, religious beliefs, and aesthetic spirit. It preserves invaluable materials from myths, legends, religious beliefs and rituals, stories, fables, poems, aphorisms, and proverbs of the Mongolian people and various Central Asian ethnic groups. As such, it almost serves as an encyclopedic guide, representing one of the most significant peaks in world human hunting and nomadic culture, worthy of deep attention and study.
The book begins with the twenty-second ancestral predecessor of Genghis Khan, Borte Chino and Ho'ei Ma Lan Le, and ends in the twelfth year of Ogedei Khan (1240), covering approximately five hundred years of the rise and fall of the Mongol people. Its main focus is on the breathtaking and tragic history of the rise and unification of the Mongolian Plateau by Genghis Khan's army.
Within its pages, there are accounts of the patrilineal clan system and hunting life on the Mongolian Plateau, as well as related totem worship phenomena; there are narratives about the evolution from clans to tribes, then to tribal alliances, and eventually into a unified nation; there are truthful records of the transition from hunting culture to nomadic culture; and there are vivid portrayals of the extraordinary generation led by Genghis Khan, who fought tirelessly, shedding blood and sacrificing lives, rising from obscurity to achieve global dominance. This is precisely why this book is regarded as an "encyclopedic" masterpiece for understanding the full panorama of the Mongol people.