Protests have been underway in recent months in Inner Mongolia over the Chinese government’s new education policy, which mandates a transition to the use of the “national common language,” that is, ...

Ethnic Mongolian students and parents in northern China have staged mass school boycotts over a new curriculum that would scale back education in their mother tongue, in a rare and highly visible ...

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Beijing’s latest move in Xi Jinping’s increasingly repressive 21st century Cultural Revolution, which has already enveloped Tibet and Xinjiang, is in the northern Chinese province of Inner Mongolia, ...

Genghis Khan as depicted in a 15th century manuscript. Credit: Bibliothèque nationale de France Subscribe for ads-free reading On August 26 China passed a law to sideline teaching in the Mongolian ...

My Mongolian name is Adiya, though the name on my passport is Wu Guoxing. I’m 34 and was born in the eastern part of Inner Mongolia, a region in northern China. When I was little all my lessons were ...

The Associated Press’ Huizhong Wu reports that at least 23 people have been detained following protests across Inner Mongolia against recently announced language education reforms. The new policies ...