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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Author: William A. Brown
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 954

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Author: Bai Liu
Publisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Author: Abdul-Rahman Al-Haddad
Publisher: UNESCO
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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Author: Mongolian National Commission for Unesco
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789232019851
Category : Art and state
Languages : en
Pages : 49

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Author: H. M. Shevchuk
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Author: Phillip P. Marzluf
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498534864
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 235

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Language, Literacy, and Social Change in Mongolia is the first full-length treatment of literacy in Mongolian. Challenging readers’ assumptions about Central Asia and Mongolia, this book focuses on Mongolians’ experiences with reading and writing throughout the past 100 years. Literacy, as a powerful historical and social variable, shows readers how reading and writing have shaped the lives of Mongolians and, at the same time, how reading and writing have been transformed by historical, political, economic, and other social forces. Mongolian literacy serves as an especially rich area of inquiry because of the dramatic political, economic, and social changes that occurred in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. For the seventy years during which Mongolia was a part of the communist Soviet world, literacy played an important role in how Mongolians identified themselves, conceived of the past, and created a new social order. Literacy was also a part of the story of authoritarianism and state violence. It was used to express the authority of the communist Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party, control the pastoral population, and suppress non-socialist beliefs and practices. Mongolians’ reading and writing opportunities and resources were tightly controlled, and the language policy of replacing the traditional Mongolian script with the Cyrillic alphabet immediately followed the violent repression of Buddhist leaders, government officials, and intellectuals. Beginning with the 1990 Democratic Revolution, Mongolians have been thrust into free-market capitalism, privatization, globalization, and neoliberalism. In post-socialist Mongolia, literacy no longer serves as the center for Mongolian identity. Government subsidies to pastoral literacy resources have been slashed, and administrators now find themselves competing with other “developing countries” for educational funding. Due to the pressures caused by globalization, Mongolians have begun to talk about literacy and language in terms of crisis and anxiety. As global flows of English compete with new symbols from the distant past, Mongolians worry about the perceived lowering standards of Mongolian linguistic usage amid rapid economic changes. These worries also reveal themselves in official language policies and manifest themselves in the multiple languages and scripts that appear in the capital of Ulaanbaatar and other urban areas.

Author: Haryati Soebadio-Noto Soebagio
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Author: Uradyn Erden Bulag
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198233572
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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Uradyn Bulag presents a unique study of what it means to be Mongolian today. Mongolian nationalism, emerging from a Soviet-dominated past and facing a Chinese-threatened future, has led its adherents to stress purity in an effort to curb the outside influences on Mongolian culture andidentity. This sort of nationalism views the Halh (the 'indigenous' Mongols) as 'pure' Mongols, and other Mongol groups as 'impure'. This Halh-centrism excites and exploits fears that Mongolia will be swallowed by China; it stands in opposition to pan-Mongolism, the view that links between Mongolsof all kinds should be strengthened. Bulag draws on an abundance of illuminating research findings to argue that Mongols are facing a choice between a purist, racialized nationalism, inherited from Soviet discourses of nationalism, and a more open, adaptive nationalism which accepts diversity,hybridity, and multiculturalism. He calls into question the idea of Mongolia as a homogeneous place and people, and urges that unity should be sought through acknowledgement of diversity.

Author: William A. Brown
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684171962
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 930

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An annotated translation of the third volume of the detailed, comprehensive history of the Mongolian People’s Republic.