"representative from Inner Mongolia, in a glorious blue silk robe, whether she had seen any policies that would be specifically helpful for Mongolians. “I haven’t,” she said “but forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation is the guiding thread & that’s good for all minorities.”
These days all major outlets are covering the new law on "ethnic unity" and how it will erase China's minorities & even prosecute parents who "instill" detrimental views in their children.
It is a sad development, the outcomes of which are long prescribed.
www.economist.com/china/2026/0...
"By restricting minority language education for most subjects, the new law ensures that "Uyghurs, Tibetans & Mongolians will no longer be entitled to use their native languages for subjects in schools and universities. Instead, they will be forced to use Mandarin Chinese"
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Then @sophiedrich.bsky.social writes in @thediplomat.com about the changes to law in China around languages that continue the process of erasing minority languages such as Tibetan, Mongolian & Uyghur
(The tags #MilkTeaAlliance #savemongolianlanguage appeared together a few times over the years)
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"Under the new Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress, while minority languages may still be taught as a second language, groups such as Tibetans, Uyghurs and Mongolians will no longer be entitled to use their native tongues for core subjects in schools and universities."
If the Iraq war gave CCP a chance to ride the bandwagon w/ Bush & Co & crush Uighur dissent under the "terrorism" pre-text, the new regional war in Middle East is apparently giving Beijing another opportunity to finish the cultural genocide of minorities including Mongols.
www.ft.com/content/94be...
Hautala, Roman. Masters of the Earth: A History of the Golden Horde, 1219–1502. London: Reaktion Books, 2026.
reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/masters...
#mongolsky
#tengri
#medievalsky
2/ My first book, “Territorial Natures: Imperial Japan and the Mongolian Question,” is coming out with @uchicagopress.bsky.social this August 2026.
You can find it here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
CfP: Reframing Tibetan and Mongol Mapmaking Practices, due March 1
Amazing opportunity for 18th and 19th c. historians to study some exquisite 20th c. artifacts at Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
www.iaaw.hu-berlin.de/de/zentralas...
Wow 😱
"Både Bondevik, Epstein og alle de andre medlemmene av rådet fikk en årlig utbetaling på 100.000 dollar fra Mongolia, ifølge interne IPI-dokumenter."
www.nrk.no/norge/terje-...
Since it is #TsagaanSar here are the screenshots of the opening and closing scenes of President of Mongolia's greetings.
Both in Mongol Bichig:
Wishing you all to ride through the year of fire horse with high Khiimori!
ᠰᠠᠷᠠ ᠰᠢᠨᠡ ᠶ᠋ᠢᠨ ᠮᠡᠨᠳᠦ ᠳᠡᠪᠰᠢᠭᠦᠯᠦᠶᠡ 🫶 🙏
Russian imperialism - the metropolitan racist elite that sucks out all the resources from the periphery & then makes the colonized poor fight its fascist wars.
If you serve as the Tsar's private "oprichnina" like Chechnya does today, there is a temporary respite. But that is all to it.
Wooden composite frame saddle (top left), illustration of the saddle from three angles (top right) and illustration of the saddle on a horse, annotated with features (bottom).
This #NationalInventorsDay we want to see your favourite inventions from the past!
We'll start, with the 'true frame' saddle: the sturdy frame made mounted combat easier, making this invention instrumental to the rise of Mongolian steppe cultures.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
New open-access book: 𝘙𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘈𝘴𝘪𝘢: 𝘗𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮, 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘙𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, edited by Ariell Ahearn, Gantulga Munkherdene, and Takahiro Ozaki. Download it as PDF or Epub on our Environment & Society Portal. #EnvHum
This image displays three individuals with a text overlay and includes a logo. The text reads: "Mongolian Writers Targeted by the Chinese Government. Read our blog post on the one-year anniversary of one writer's disappearance." The logo for PEN America is at the bottom.
“It has been one year since anyone saw Hada, a Mongolian writer, bookseller, and activist who was disappeared from his hospital bed on February 6, 2025,” writes Erika Nguyen. He is one of many writers who have suffered under the constant repression by the Chinese state. More: pen.org/mongolian-wr...
I am not well versed enough to gauge the Liberal Democratic Party's factional balance and the impact on Japan's foreign policy, but...
I am glad that someone like Sanae Takaichi, who pays attention to the literal erasure of Inner Mongolians, has gained resounding support from Japanese electorate.
"Mongolske gjetere samarbeider i gjetergrupper, kjent som khot ail, som har røtter fra 1100-tallet. Samarbeidsformen har fått ny relevans i møte med klimaendringer og urbanisering."
www.niku.no/2026/02/mong...
"Chinese government is targeting Mongolian language & culture in certain online spaces, systematically dismantling important digital communities where Mongolian identity exists, acc to PEN America & Southern Mongolian Human Rights Info Center."
#SaveMongolianLanguage
www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/...
Newly announced Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe's Platform for Dialogue with Russian Democratic Forces includes many indigenous names.
This is a result of diligent work by the minorities themselves & criticism of the racist imperialists in "sheeps skin".
pace.coe.int/en/news/1015...
🙏😊
slightly tangential, but a bit more context - there is a pop-culture reason why it goes viral & feels relatable.
Star Wars' Padme Amidala's costume was inspired by Mongol woman's clothes - hence we see comments like "they look like galactic imperial royals" etc. Muscle memory kicks in :))
Apparently, internet is crowning Team Mongolia's Winter Olympic uniform for Milano-Cortina as the BEST, again. (1&2)
Again - coz we "won" that category in 2024 Paris. (3&4)
It is almost turning into a tradition & perhaps somebody at our Olympic committee saw this low-hanging fruit opportunity.
It is entertaining. But it is rather shallow and predictable for those who've been to the countries. At the same it is "propaganda". One side is orientalized, objectified, irrational, the other is of course full of good heroes.
"At the same time, China continues to publicly display a “sanitized” or touristic version of Mongolian culture through foreign influencers and international media in order to be able to claim to international audiences that it is supportive of Mongolians’ cultural rights."
#InnerMongolia
"It was formerly possible to pursue studies from kindergarten through to university entirely in Mongolian—an academic pathway traversed by this essay’s second author. That era is over."
#InnerMongolia
madeinchinajournal.com/2026/01/20/r...
Galleria Borghese in Rome is hosting two works of Zanabazar - the Green Tara and his selfportrait as part of the "From Mongolia to the Global Baroque" exhibit thru Feb 22, 2026.
Items loaned from the Chinggis Khan museum.
#mongolsky
Even more impressive is the list of contributors, from local government admin units, monasteries, monks, horse trainers, elderly associations, ordinary schoolchildren, police...
Proves how the cultural memory is alive, permeates across geneations, urban rural & etc.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=owNp...
I always say Mongolian Gen-Z is better than its previous gens.
A genre bending 8 min long clip by a rap artist ThunderZ gathers 1 mln views in just 2 days from a population of 3.5 mln.
Inspired by Lodongiin Tudev's novel "A Monastery without a Spire" it is a somber reminder to our collective pain.
A new article by me on @medievalists.bsky.social on the clothing and hair of (mostly upper class) medieval Mongolian women of the empire-era has now been posted. A link to it will be in the comments below.
