Mongolia

A Political History of the Land and its People

Professor Michael Dillon (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2019
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
9781838606701 (ISBN)

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Mongolia remains a beautiful barren land of spectacularly clothed horse-riders, nomadic romance and windswept landscape. But modern Mongolia is now caught between two giants: China and Russia; and known to be home to enormous mineral resources they are keen to exploit. China is expanding economically into the region, buying up mining interests and strengthening its control over Inner Mongolia. Michael Dillon, one of the foremost experts on the region, seeks to tell the modern history of this fascinating country. He investigates its history of repression, the slaughter of the country’s Buddhists, its painful experiences under Soviet rule and dictatorship, and its history of corruption. But there is hope for its future, and it now has a functioning parliamentary democracy which is broadly representative of Mongolia’s ethnic mix. How long that can last is another question. Short, sharp and authoritative, Mongolia will become the standard text on the region as it becomes begins to shape world affairs.

Michael Dillon was founding Director of the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Durham, where he taught modern Chinese history. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Asiatic Society and was Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing in 2009. He has travelled throughout China and Central Asia for over 40 years, and speaks and reads both Chinese and Mongolian. He is the author of China: A Modern History.

Introduction
1. Mongolia and the Mongols: Land, People and Traditions
2. Mongolia’s 20th Century Revolutions: Religion and Resistance and the Living Buddha of Urga
3. Sukhbaatar and Choibalsan in the Mongolian Revolution
4. Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party in Power – the ‘Socialist Period’ and the Choibalsan Dictatorship (1924-1952)
5. Tsedenbal (1952-84) and Batmünkh (1984-1990)
6. Urga and Ulaanbaatar: Two Tales of a City
7. Democratic Revolution: Mongolia and the Collapse of Soviet Power (1991- )
8. Disintegration and Recovery of Traditional Economy
9. Mongolia and the New East Asian Order
10. The Mongols and China - Inner Mongolia and Ulaanbaatar’s Relations with Beijing
11. Looking Back to the Future: Mongolia’s Search for Identity and the Contemporary Cult of Chinggis Khan
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	29.11.2019
Zusatzinfo	8 bw illus
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 214 mm
Gewicht	300 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-13	9781838606701 / 9781838606701
Zustand	Neuware