Really enjoyed the Manchu crash course by @iskandarding.bsky.social Mongolia has quite a few Manchu experts, one of whom - Oyunjargal Ochir in her interview to Mongolian National Broadcaster would say "Manchu is the easiest foreign language to learn for Mongols". www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt64...

Take time to read Soyonbo Borjigin's personal essay on his career as a journalist in Inner Mongolia. Reads like a Murakami novel. Intimate and fluent in detailing the cultural, the political and everything else in the liminal. #mongolsky www.equator.org/articles/the...

A way to win the tournament by beating a reigning Yokozuna - Hoshoryu Byambasuren twice! As we say in Mongolian wrestling - Bokh: "You become Avarga (champ) by beating an Avarga"! May Aonishiki follow the footsteps of many Mongolian rikishi and become the next Yokozuna!

Shakily trying to recall classical Mongolian to write book inscriptions

Tenure-track position (Associate Professor/Professor) at Tohoku University, Center for NorthEast Asian Studies, Basic Research Division for Mongolian and Central Asian Studies. Need Mongolian or other CA language on top of Japanese. Deadline March 31, 2026. www2.cneas.tohoku.ac.jp/news/news251...

Physical Asia is a rare show allowing us - Asians, to see each other thru non-eurocentric gaze & it seems everyone is enjoying it. So fun to observe the different approaches to teamwork & national traits coming thru. Judging from socmed Team Mongolia is winning hearts & minds wide & deep. :)))

Lovely NHK documentary of rural Mongolian boys practicing Sumo alongside Mongol Bokh, chasing their dream to become professional rikishi one day following the footsteps of so many Mongolian Yokozunas. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg9w...

Cool PhD opportunity in Sweden at "Sociology of Authoritarian Law in Eurasia (SOCIAL) MSCA Doctoral Networks" research project, seeking Central Asia focused candidate. If were to apply I'd add CCP & United Russia's activities in CA + Mongolia as data points on SCO, EAEC. www.sh.se/om-oss/det-h...

Lots of truth in Elbegdorj's latest op-ed: "These giants (Russia & China) scrutinize every choice we make. Still, Mongolians have preserved self-rule. It comes at a price, but it proves that freedom is not a Western luxury but a universal calling." www.thefreedomfrequency.org/p/resistance...

This coming Friday, November 7th from 3:30-5:00 pm, His Eminence Khamba Lama Javzandorj Dulamragchaa  will offer a public lecture @ISTB in Vienna on the “History of Mongolian Buddhism”.   If you would like to attend, please sign up via email to [email protected]. stb.univie.ac.at/news-events/...

Mongolian Association for Manchu Studies is co-organizing a Manchu studies International conference w/ Eotvos Lorand University. Dunno if I mentioned it here, but National Library of Mongolia has a treasure trove of Manchu-language documents, w/out which "Manchu studies" is rather incomplete IMO 🤔

‘Across the region, similar scenes were unfolding. In city after city, the words for “Mongolian”, “Manchu”, “Hui”, “Korean” and “Nationality” were being replaced by numbers.’ soyonbo.substack.com/p/how-china-...

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 I talked to KG Hutchins @songsforhorses.com about his new book "A Song for the Horses: Musical Heritage for More-than-Human Futures in Mongolia" 🐴🎻 Listen below (or wherever you get your podcasts) to learn about music, climate change & future imaginaries in contemporary Mongolia ⬇️

Had a very nice chat with Maggie Freeman of the New Books Network's "Nomads Past and Present" series about my book, music, and the environment in Mongolia: newbooksnetwork.com/a-song-for-t...

the one thing about this map is that it doesn't even give the Mongolian word for these dumplings, бууз. ᠪᠤᠤᠵᠠ in Classical Mongolisn

Zurich's Rietberg museum is running an exhibition on Mongolia through Feb 2026 and as part of the associated events, the Abbot of Gandantegchinlen monastery Javzandorji will give a lecture on Mongolian Buddhism. I expect similar content to the talk he gave at MAXXI Rome. rietberg.ch/kalender/819...

As a Mongolian I am pleased with Sanae Takaichi's election as Japan's PM. A decade ago, someone with such a voice on China's #humanrights record would have been 'too extreme" for PM. Today I was also told by a Nordic Japan expert that she "would have to tone down her hawkishness to govern" ...

Mongolian rikishis in the streets of London. 😀🫶 Left to right: Maegashira Tamawashi - Batjargalyn Munkh-Orgil Ozeki Kirishima - Byambachuluuny Lkhagvasuren Yokozuna Hoshoryu - Sugarragchaagiin Byambasüren (may he come out of the shadow of his uncle) Maegashira Onokatsu - Batjargalyn Choijilsuren

Now, onto the post! "The Olufsen Collection: From 19th-Century Expeditions to Digital Museum Collection" A #guestpiece by Ishembieva Aizat, where she introduces the online #Olufsen Collection from @nationalmuseet.dk Link in bio

Takaichi criticizes China's human right abuses - Japan Today "I cannot but help feel angry that the Chinese Communist Party's repression continues in Southern Mongolia" said Takaichi as the head of LDP members supporting Mongolians in the area. #InnerMongolia japantoday.com/category/pol...

Mongolian has some wild Eurasian etymologies! 🥰 My favourite one is nom ᠨᠣᠮ ('book'), from Greek νόμος, via Sogdian and Old Uyghur. The semantic shift 'custom, law' > 'scripture' > 'book' is lovely. Btw nomos also has a Syriac > Arabic result, nāmōsā ܢܳܡܘܿܣܳܐ > nāmūs ناموس 😀 @kebuhcah.bsky.social

Cross-posting from Instytut Pekiński. I didn't know about this painting's existence "Autumn Hunting of Yuan people" & it is marvelous, to say the least. Smarter ppl are commenting on the exact date etc but Peking Inst says it is 1 of only 2 paintings of Yuan hunt - other being Kublai's. #mongolsky

Really like this title of an upcoming book. Hope we can do away with the whole "Marco Polo went to China" trope with this. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Democratic Congressmen - Ed Case, Ami Bera, Jon Jackson, wrote an Op-Ed on Pacific Forum saying "multilateralism benefits the US & its allies - Mongolia". Honorable mention to the proposed "Third Neighbor Policy Act". Important, given the intended audience on the hill. pacforum.org/publications...

Sanjaasürengiin Zorig (1962-1998) the "Golden swallow of Mongolian Democracy" pictured here in his MP office, under the painting of Chinggis Khan. (Starting from 2022, every public office in Mongolia is obliged to have such painting on their walls, under the presidential decree.)

Young & upcoming Munich-based Mongolian jazz artist Enji Erkhem, is featured on this week's HTSI FT. “I always used to live with my whole family in a one-room yurt and even sleeping in one room alone was a big experience,” she says. (not sure of the headline, but ok) www.ft.com/content/12ec...

The Sunday Times revealed the identities of 13 Russian officers who were commanding the units that perpetrated Bucha massacres. I looked at the picture (12 YT Slav + 1 Central Asian) & all I can think of is how many "Europeans" at the time believed that it was the "Asians" who did it. 🥲

Photos of a newly discovered Khitan inscription in Mongolia's North-Central Bulgan province. Credit: Japanese-Mongolian "Bichees" archaeological project between the Mongolian Academy of Sciences & experts from Otani, Osaka & Ryukoku universities. #mongolsky #khitan

C'était aujourd'hui l'anniversaire de la naissance de Qubilai Qa'an , quatrième successeur de Chinggis Khan à la tête de l'Empire mongol (1260-1294), et l'un des empereurs mongols les plus célèbres. #mongolsky #mongolempire #tengri #medievalsky #chinahistory #sinology

Mongolia's and Finland's presidents meet at the UNGA. Pretty sure this was agreed during Battsetseg's visit to Helsinki and that Stubb got an invitation from Khurelsukh to visit next year. Like Polish President's visit in 2023, this will be another meeting of "sober" heads (on Russia).

KG Hutchins’ A Song for the Horses has officially landed in Berkeley, California! @songsforhorses.com

PostDoc in Inner Asian history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on "Steppe Cities in Medieval Mongolia: Historical, Archaeological and Environmental Perspectives" project. #mongolsky www.academia.edu/143951531/CF...

So I am watching this doc called "Jens in Mongolia" on NRK, mostly to see how they portray Mongolia in Norway. Jens rides horses to places he could've just driven to & the whole thing is artificial "adventure" & "hardships" in totally fictitiously unnecessary contexts. Dunno if audience knew. 🤔

Sep 10 is the Day of Tribute to the Victims of Political Repression in Mongolia. Every year political & religious leadership hold low-key annual ceremonies that is part tokenism & part reminder of the absence of lustration, unfinished decommunization & decolonization of the country.

Sussan Babaie is going to give a public lecture at the Chinggis Khan Museum, next week on the legendary 1300s Ilkhanid Mongol bag. Glad that such knowledge is being shared with Mongolian audience as well (and not just stay within Western ivory tower). #mongolsky

Article of mine on the Secret History of the Mongols, its content and history #mongolempire #mongolsky #tengri

Interested in the Mongol Empire and its underpinning social structure? Have a look at my newest article, "Hypotheses for a Social History of the Apanages of the Sons of Chinggis Khan and Börte" in the last issue of Przegląd Orientalistyczny! p. 99-116 pto.orient.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/u...

The picture of Mongolian and Chinese leaders meeting. What is telling is how the Chinese side doesn't have any ethnic Mongolian on the table. For a long time Madame Fu Ying, ex dipomat and highest ranking minority official within PRC, was the mainstay of such meetings.

From the news coming from Beijing, it may seem like there is a breakthough in #PowerofSiberia2 & #SoyuzVostok pipeline. My belief is that this "legally-binding MOU w/ economics to be fleshed out separately", is just another way of saying "let's keep it on the stove". IMO project is stuck as ever.

Came across this Postdoc position at UiO. I think someone could (read: must) really add an #InnerAsian steppe pastoral dimension into this ERC-funded "ECOART" project. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

And of course the son of one of Mongolia’s wisest men.

If you know anything about Dinosaurs chances are you heard of Rinchengiin Barsbold Yunshiyebu (1935-2025). His 1971 discovery of velociraptor & protoceratops locked in deathly fight is legendary, which is only a snippet of his rich biography & as a kid I dreamed of becoming a paleontologist. RiP🙏

I don't think assimilation is the right framework for analyzing developments in the late Mongol Empire. There has never been any one-way assimilation process. The Mongols, both elites and population, did not become neither Persian nor Chinese.

It is highly debatable that "Mongol rulers tended to adopt the cultures and religions local to the areas under their direct control", making branches of the imperial family "slowly diverged from one another, having less and less in common." #mongolsky #tengri #mongolempire #medievalsky

Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”

Excited to say that my new article for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History, "Animal History of the Mongolian Plateau", is out! #tengri #mongolsky #envhist #animalhistory oxfordre.com/asianhistory...

Meduza had an interview with former head of Kalmykia's Buddhist establishment - Telo Tulku Rinpoche, aka Dilowu Khutughtu (current reincarnation) who spoke against the war in Ukraine. He is spending his time b/n Mongolia, India & his native US these days. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Talked with Maggie Freeman on her podcast “Nomads, Past and Present” about “The Nomadic Leviathan“: #TheNomadic Origin of the State, #TheWeberian State, #The Conquest Theory of State Formation, #Bureaucracy as a method conquest rule, #Extrahuman Transportation ⬇️ newbooksnetwork.com/the-nomadic-...

I don't know much about Czech politics but I'm glad that in these testy times we have leaders like Pavel. #respect

Najib Comeback Would Be ‘Insane,’ Murdered Mongolian’s Dad Says. The father of Altantuya Shaariibuu, whose brutal murder in 2006 rocked Malaysia, speaks about the prospect of former premier Najib Razak making a political comeback. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...