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Nicola Di Cosmo 
Sex:Male 男
Nationality:Italy 義大利
Period for Grants:3個月
Luce Foundation Professor in East Asian Studies
照片 Photo :  Nicola Di Cosmo

CCS Grant

1990/7~1990/9

Instituion:University of Cambridge英國劍橋大學

Topic:滿族統治中國、中亞地區人民的政權之建立與發展

Specialty:滿族文化、語言研究

Present

Instituion:Institute for Advanced Study , Princeton University , U.S.A

美國普林斯頓大學高等研究中心

Specialty:蒙古及滿族研究、軍事史、政治、中國北疆文化

Homepage:Institute for Advanced Study , Princeton University , U.S.A
中研院專訪
Visiting Professor, Princeton University

Work catalog
Article catalog
  • Nicola Di Cosmo. 1982. “Due messaggi sacrificali dei Jin Posteriori.” In Cina, 18 , pp. 117‑129.
  • Nicola Di Cosmo. 1983. “Nuove fonti sulla formazione dello stato mancese, Ia parte, Il Rapporto di Yi Minhwan.” In Catai, II-III , pp. 139-165.
  • Nicola Di Cosmo. 1984. “I rapporti tra Stati Uniti e Cina (1944‑1949) nella storiografia americana.” In Rivista di storia contemporanea, 13.4, pp. 578‑605.
  • Nicola Di Cosmo. 1986. “Mongolian Topics in the U.S. Military Intelligence Reports.” In Mongolian Studies, 10 , pp. 96‑107.
  • Nicola Di Cosmo. 1987. “Alcune osservazioni sull'accento mancese.” In Aetas Manjurica, 1 , pp. 1‑15.
  • Nicola Di Cosmo. 1989. “A Russian Envoy to Khiva: the Italian Diary of Florio Beneveni.” In Proceedings of the 28th Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference, at Venice, Italy, July 1985, ed. Giovanni Stary (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz), pp. 73‑114.
  • Nicola Di Cosmo. 1989. “A Manchu Fragment on the Medical Treatment Given by the Italian Jesuit Giovanni Giuseppe Da Costa to Yin‑ssu, Eighth Son of K'ang‑hsi.” In Religious and Lay Symbolism in the Altaic World and Other Papers. Proceedings of the 27th Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference, at Walberberg, Germany, June 1984, ed. Klaus Sagaster (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz), pp. 100‑108.
  • Nicola Di Cosmo. 1989. Review of: Coox, Alvin D. Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia 1939. Reviewed in Mongolian Studies, vol. XII, pp. 125‑128.
  • Nicola Di Cosmo. 1990. “A Manchu Patent in the Oriental Collection of the Newark Museum.” In Altaica Osloensia. Proceedings of the 32nd Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference, at Oslo, June 1989, ed. Bernt Brendemoen (Oslo, Norwegian University Press), pp. 103-112.
  • Nicola Di Cosmo. 1990. “A Note on the Tana Route and International Trade in the 15th Century.” In Aspects of Altaic Civilization III. Proceedings of the 30th Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference, at Bloomington, Indiana, USA, June 1987, ed. Denis Sinor. Bloomington: Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, pp. 20-32.
  • Nicola Di Cosmo. 1994. “Ancient Inner Asian Nomads: Their Economic Basis and Its Significance in Chinese History.” In The Journal of Asian Studies, 53.4, pp. 1092‑1126.
  • Nicola Di Cosmo. 1996. “Das Kŏnchu mun’gyŏn rok des Yi Minhwan.” In Materialen zur Vorgeschichte der Qing-Dynastie, ed. Giovanni Stary, Wiesbaden . [Transl. of no. 27], pp. 10-22.
  • Nicola Di Cosmo. 1996. “Ancient Xinjiang between Central Asia and China.” In Anthropology & Archeology of Eurasia, 34.4 , pp. 87‑101.
  • Nicola Di Cosmo. 1996. “Mongolia: VI. Historiography.” In The Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner. New York: Grove's Dictionaries, vol. 21, pp. 884-885.
  • Nicola Di Cosmo. 1996. “Mongolia: VII. Archaeology.” In The Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner. New York: Grove's Dictionaries, vol. 21, pp. 885-886.
  • Nicola Di Cosmo. 1996. Noin Ula.” In The Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner. New York: Grove's Dictionaries, vol. 23, pp. 178-179.
  • Nicola Di Cosmo. 1997. “A Set of Manchu Documents Concerning a Khokand Mission to Kashgar (1807).” In Central Asiatic Journal 41.2, pp. 159-99.
  • Nicola Di Cosmo. 1998. “Qing Colonial Administration in Inner Asia.” In The International History Review, 20.2 , pp. 287‑309.
  • Nicola Di Cosmo. 1999. “The Northern Frontier in Pre‑Imperial China.” In The Cambridge History of Ancient China, ed. Michael Loewe and Edward L. Shaughnessy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press , pp. 885-966.
  • Nicola Di Cosmo. 1999. “Manchu Shamanic Ceremonies at the Qing Court.” In State and Court Ritual in China, ed. Joseph P. McDermott. Cambridge, pp. 352-98.
  • Nicola Di Cosmo. 1999. “State Formation and Periodization in Inner Asian History.” In Journal of World History, 10.1, pp. 1-40.
  • Nicola Di Cosmo. 1999. “New Directions in Inner Asian History: A Review Article.” In Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 42.2, pp. 247-63.
  • Nicola Di Cosmo. 2000. Ancient City-States of the Tarim Basin.” In A Comparative Study of Thirty City-State Cultures, ed. Mogens Herman Hansen. Copenhagen , pp. 393-407.
  • Nicola Di Cosmo. 2000. “The Qing Dynasty and the Sinicization Thesis; On Evelyn Rawski's The Last Emperors: A Social History of Qing Imperial Institutions, and Pamela Crossley's A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology.” In New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, 2.2 , pp. 149-156.
  • Nicola Di Cosmo. 2010. "Black Sea Emporia and the Mongol Empire: A Reassessment of the Pax Mongolica." In Empires and Emporia: The Orient in World Historical Space and Time, ed. Jos Gommans. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 53, pp. 83-108.
  • Nicola Di Cosmo. 2010. "Gli imperi nomadi nella storia della Cina imperiale." In Storia della Cina, Vol. II: L'età imperiale dai Tre Regni ai Qing, eds. Mario Sabattini and Maurizio Scarpari. Torino: Einaudi, pp. 219-260.
  • Nicola Di Cosmo. 2009. "La 'guerra giusta' nella conquesta mancese della Cina." In Nuova Rivista Storica 93.2 pp. 449-476.
  • Nicola Di Cosmo. 2009. "The Qing and Inner Asia: 1636-1800." In The Cambridge History of Inner Asia: The Chinggisid Age, eds. Nicola Di Cosmo, Allen J. Frank and Peter B. Golden. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 333-362.
  • Shree R.S. Dangal, Hanqin Tian, Chaoqun Lu, Wei Ren, Shufen Panm Jua Yang, Nicola Di Cosmo, Amy Hessl. “Integrating Herbivore Population Dynamics into a Global Land Biosphere Model: Plugging animals into the earth system.” Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. December 2017
  • Di Cosmo, N., Ulf Büntgen and Clive Oppenheimer. "Interplay of Environmental and Socio-political Factors in the Downfall of the Eastern Türk Empire in 630 CE." Climatic Change.
  • Büntgen, U. and Di Cosmo, N., "Reply to ‘Climate of doubt: a re-evaluation of Büntgen and Di Cosmo’s environmental hypothesis for the Mongol withdrawal from Hungary, 1242 CE’." Scientific Reports, 2017
  • Ulf Büntgen, Ólafur Eggertsson, Lukas Wacker, Michael Sigl, Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, Nicola Di Cosmo, Gill Plunkett10, Paul J. Krusic, Timothy P. Newfield, Jan Esper, Christine Lane, Frederick Reinig, and Clive Oppenheimer. “Multi-proxy dating of Iceland’s major pre-settlement Katla eruption to 822–823 CE.” Geology, 19 June 2017.
  • Oppenheimer, C., Wacker, L., Xu, J., Galván, J.D., Stoffel, M., Guillet, S., Corona, C., Sigl, M., Di Cosmo, N., Hajdas, I. and Pan, B., 2017. "Multi-proxy dating the ‘Millennium Eruption’of Changbaishan to late 946 CE". Quaternary Science Reviews, 158:164-171.
  • "Nurhaci’s Gambit: The concept and praxis of sovereignty in the rise of Manchu power” in The Scaffolding of Sovereignty: Global and Aesthetic Perspectives on the History of a Concept. Edited by Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Nicole Jerr (New York 2017): 102-123.
  • 关于草原帝国历史分析的理论思考 (Theoretical Reflections on the Historical Analysis of Steppe Empires), in 断裂与转型:帝国之后的欧亚历史与史学 – Between Empires: Rupture, Transformation, and Transmission (Shanghai 2017): 1-25.
  • “The Extension of Ch’ing Rule over Mongolia, Sinkiang, and Tibet, 1630-1800” in The Cambridge History of China 9.2 Ed. William Pederson (Cambridge 2016): 111-145
  • Büntgen, U. and Di Cosmo, N., 2016. "Climatic and environmental aspects of the Mongol withdrawal from Hungary in 1242 CE". Scientific reports, 6:25606.
  • Büntgen, U., Myglan, V.S., Ljungqvist, F.C., McCormick, M., Di Cosmo, N., Sigl, M., Jungclaus, J., Wagner, S., Krusic, P.J., Esper, J. and Kaplan, J.O., 2016. "Cooling and societal change during the Late Antique Little Ice Age from 536 to around 660 AD". Nature Geoscience.
  • “China-Steppe relations in historical perspective”. In Complexity and Interaction along the Eurasian Steppe Zone in the First Millennium CE. Ed. Jan Bemmann, Michael Schmauder (Bonn 2015): 49-72.
  • “Why Qara Qorum? Climate and Geography in the Early Mongol Empire.” Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi 21 (2014-2015): 67-78.
  • "A Note on the Formation of the Silk Road as Long Distance Exchange Network” In ReSilkRoad. Ed. Mehmet Bulut (Istanbul 2014):17-26.
  • Pederson, N., Hessl, A.E., Baatarbileg, N., Anchukaitis, K.J. and Di Cosmo, N., 2014. "Pluvials, droughts, the Mongol Empire, and modern Mongolia". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(12):4375-4379.
  • “Connecting Maritime and Continental History: The Black Sea Region at the Time of the Mongol Empire” in The Sea: Thalassography and Historiography, ed. Peter Miller. (University of Michigan Press, 2013).: 174-97.
  • “Aristocratic Elites in the Xiongnu Empire as Seen from Historical and Archeological Evidence.” In Nomad Aristocrats in a World of Empires, Ed. Jürgen Paul (Wiesbaden 2013): 23-53.
  • “Le frontiere dell’impero Han.” In La Cina vol.1.2: Dall’Età del Bronzo all’impero Han. Eds. Tiziana Lippiello and Maurizio Scarpari (Torino, Einaudi), pp. 299-320.
  • “La frontiera settentrionale dalle origini all’unificazione imperiale.” In La Cina vol.1.2: Dall’Età del Bronzo all’impero Han. Eds. Tiziana Lippiello and Maurizio Scarpari (Torino, Einaudi), pp. 263-298.
  • “Connecting Maritime and Continental History: The Black Sea Region at the Time of the Mongol Empire.” In The Sea: Thalassography and Historiography, ed. Peter Miller. (Ann Arbor, 2013), pp. 174-97.
  • “Aristocratic Elites in the Xiongnu Empire as Seen from Historical and Archeological Evidence.” In Nomad Aristocrats in a World of Empires, Ed. By Jürgen Paul (Wiesbaden, 2013), pp. 23-53.
  • “Introduction” in Crossroads vol. 5: Ethnicity and Sinicization Reconsidered (April 2012), pp. 5-25.
  • “From Alliance to Tutelage: A Historical Analysis of Manchu-Mongol Relations before the Qing Conquest”. Frontiers of History in China (2012), pp. 175-197.
  • Review of: Virgil Ciociltan, The Mongols and the Black Sea Trade in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century. In Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi 19 (2012), pp. 303-305.
  • Review of: David Robinson, Empire’s Twilight: Northeast Asia under the Mongols. Journal of Song-Yuan Studies 41, pp. 411-414.
  • Review of: David Robinson, Empire’s Twilight: Northeast Asia under the Mongols. Journal of Song-Yuan Studies 41, pp. 411-414.
  • "Nurhaci's Names," in Representing Power in Ancient Inner Asia: Legitimacy, Transmission and the Sacred, ed. Isabelle Charleux et al. (Bellingham WA: Western Washington University, 2010), pp. 271-79.
  • "The Manchu Conquest in World-Historical Perspective: A Note on Trade and Silver" in Journal of Central Asian Studies 1 (2010), pp. 43-60.
  • "Ethnography of the Nomads and 'Barbarian' History in Han China." In Intentional History: Spinning Time in Ancient Greece, ed., Lin Foxhall et al. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag (2010), pp. 229-325.
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