"Nomads Negotiating the Establishment of Russian Central Asia: Focusing on the Activities of the Kyrgyz Tribal Chieftains" by AKIYAMA Tetsu. Toyo Bunko publications appear to be online, but are missing in google searches. #CAHistory #NotquiteOA. https://t.co/JKz0sg2ZQA

@Natlyt @trude_dijkstra The route to Nieuhof's plate is probably like this: 1) Haipian xinjing 1596 (or another work of similar content, cf. https://t.co/VCXpvpcjor, p. 97 with n. 36): https://t.co/5Dc28fwJfv 2) Kircher 1654: https://t.co/bfrWgW6izG 3) Spitzel 1661: https://t.co/1tBDMQp0o7 https://t.co/epfnbebCKZ