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, ...

Unusually widespread protests have broken out in ethnic Mongol communities in northern China as Chinese authorities prepare to introduce new measures requiring classes in primary and secondary schools ...

Genghis Khan as depicted in a 15th century manuscript. Credit: Bibliothèque nationale de France On August 26 China passed a law to sideline teaching in the Mongolian language in the region of Inner ...

Mongolian President Khurelsukh Ukhnaa shakes hands with a winning student in the 2023 Best Mongolian Calligrapher competition, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Jan. 11, 2024. Credit: Office of the President of ...

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 ...

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 ...

(New York) – The Chinese government should reverse its new policy of increasingly replacing Mongolian with Mandarin Chinese as the language of instruction in Inner Mongolia schools, Human Rights Watch ...

HOHHOT, China — Parents walked toward a wall of metal barriers, holding the hands of their first-graders as dozens of police and men in dark clothes watched and scowled in the afternoon light. One by ...