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Lost cities in the Steppe: investigating an enigmatic site type in early modern Mongolia
A Mongolian-German project is investigating abandoned early modern military and monastic sites in central Mongolia, including how the ruins of these urban nodes continue to shape cultural memory within nomadic society. Initial excavations have revealed a previously unknown site type, interpreted as garrisons from the period of Manchu rule (AD 1636–1911).
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Truth, History and Politics in Mongolia
Using Mongolia as its example, this book examines how knowledge is transmitted and transformed in light of political change by looking at shifting conceptions of historical figures. It suggests that the reflection of people's concept of themselves is a much greater influence in the writing of history than has previously been thought and examines in detail how history was used to subvert the socialist project in Mongolia. This is the first study of the symbolic struggle over who controlled 'the past' and the 'true' identity of a Mongol, fought between the ruling party and its protesters during the democratic revolution.
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Russians as a Minority in Socialist Mongolia: Social Exclusion and Identity
The article deals with the study of local Russian populations of Mongolia during the socialist period. It examines key stages in the formation of the Russian diaspora in the Mongolian People’s Republic. Issues of the legal, political and civic status of the migrants are studied. The article is based on published memoirs, data from internet forums devoted to the problems of the Russians in Mongolia and parish data of the Russian Orthodox Church in Ulaanbaatar.
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Deep China
Deep China investigates the emotional and moral lives of the Chinese people as they adjust to the challenges of modernity. Sharing a medical anthropology and cultural psychiatry perspective, Arthur Kleinman, Yunxiang Yan, Jing Jun, Sing Lee, Everett Zhang, Pan Tianshu, Wu Fei, and Guo Jinhua delve into intimate and sometimes hidden areas of personal life and social practice to observe and narrate the drama of Chinese individualization. The essays explore the remaking of the moral person during China's profound social and economic transformation, unraveling the shifting practices and struggles of contemporary life.
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Tarrying with Repression: Political Anecdotes and Social Memory in Northern Mongolia
AbstractThis article1 explores different forms of social memory about the state socialist repression of Mongolian Buddhism in the 1930s. Based on two political anecdotes collected during fieldwork among Darhads in Northern Mongolia as well as on recent studies of social memory in Mongolia and Buryatia by Christopher Kaplonski and Caroline Humphrey, I identify three ‘mnemonic tropes,’ which are appropriated by people in recounting these tragic events of the past, namely, what I call the digital, the paranoid, and the comical mode of collective remembering respectively. In broad terms, these mnemonic attitudes seem to correspond to three scapes of remembering: a radically liberal, a mildly conservative, and a neo-authoritarian political climate respectively.
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Truth, History and Politics in Mongolia: The Memory of Heroes
(ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.) Mongolia's transformation over the past twenty years--from a Soviet-dominated socialist regime into a country that aspires to consolidate multiparty democracy, an open market economy, and \"the West\" as a welcome third neighbor to counterbalance Russia and China--has been analyzed closely in terms of its changing social, economic, and political structures and the Mongols' efforts to adapt or create new strategies to operate successfully under these new conditions. The later interviews show the development of a historical narrative, drawing parallels between the movement, the 1911 declaration of the independent theocratic state, and the 1921 People's Revolution, as well as the hunger strike in Sükhbaatar Square as a key image for the Mongolian social memory of the period. The confounding problem in writing this sort of book is that it must bring a great deal of surrounding critical context in order to be truly useful to a reader without much knowledge of Mongolia, or else a concise focus on its subject requires that readers have a solid knowledge of Mongolia's historical and cultural context.
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