Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Subvention -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Conventions -- Dramatis Personae -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Luoyang Reborn -- 2. A Woman of Power, Remembered Poorly -- 3. …”

“…The kaleidoscope of stories told in these songs include that of Marshall Qi, a chieftain from the Seven Valleys who travels to Luoyang with his Mongghul army to battle rebels; Laarimbu and Qiimunso, a pair of star-crossed lovers who take revenge from beyond the grave on the families that kept them apart; and the Crop-Planting Song and the Sheep Song, which map the physical and spiritual terrain of the Mongghul people, vividly describing the physical and cosmological world in which they exist. …”