Mongolia: A Political History of the Land and Its People by Dillon, Michael

Mongolia A Political History of the Land and its People (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781838606701)

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Mongolia: A Political History of the Land and Its People by Dillon, Michael

Mongolia A Political History of the Land and its People

$35.95
Mongolia: A Political History of the Land and Its People by Dillon, Michael

Mongolia A Political History of the Land and its People

$35.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Michael Dillon
ISBN-10: 183860670X
ISBN-13: 9781838606701
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 11/28/2019
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d
By Michael Dillon
By Michael Dillon
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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.

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