The Defense of China Against the Mongols Defending Heaven is a very readable account of the protracted and ultimately unsuccessful efforts of the Song ... Mongol conquest of China, and ends with a ...

The Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasty Studies is an international society committed to the encouragement of the study of Chinese—as well as Jürchen, Khitan, Tangut, and Mongol—history, ...

Yates: Although scholars often consider the Song Dynasty to have been very weak, its use of gunpowder was the reason it was able to hold off the Mongols for many decades. Eventually, the Mongols ...

With such a lineage, one might think that conquest was his only ambition ... The Southern Song dynasty in China resisted Mongol domination for years. Khan, determined and relentless, finally ...