Charles Bawden

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Charles R. Bawden is Emeritus Professor of Mongolian in the University of London. From 1955 to 1984, he was a Lecturer, Reader, and Professor of Mongolian at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London. He has written on Mongolian history and literature, and has published a Mongolian-English dictionary that is often cited as the most comprehensive available. In addition to having been elected a Fellow of the British Academy, he was also awarded the Order of the Polar Star by the Mongolian government. Bawden’s publications are extensive.

[edit] Works

  • The Mongol Chronicle Altan Tobci. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1955.
  • The Jebtsundamba Khutukhtus of Urga; text, translation, and notes. Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, 1961.
  • The History of Modern Mongolia. New York: Praeger, 1968.
  • Shamans, Lamas, and Evangelicals: The English Missionaries in Siberia. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985.
  • Confronting the Supernatural: Mongolian Traditional Ways and Means. Weisbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1994.
  • Mongolian-English dictionary.London: K. Paul International, 1997.
  • Mongolian Traditional Literature: An Anthology. London: Kegan Paul, 2003.