The Douban comment was not inflammatory. In fact, it didn’t even betray an overt opinion. But for censors, it was too much. “A note for posterity: this will be Inner Mongolia’s last Mongolian-language gaokao,” it read. Censors...
Minority languages in China are increasingly under threat. Over the past week, the language learning app Talkmate and the online video streaming site Bilibili appeared to remove Tibetan and Uyghur languages from their platforms...
Five years after his arrest on charges of inciting separatism, Tashi Wangchuk, an advocate for Tibetan-language education, has been released from prison. He attempted to use legal avenues to reinstitute Tibetan-language...
Recent months have seen increasingly sharp reprisals against prominent critics of Xi Jinping’s leadership. Law professor Xu Zhangrun was fired by Tsinghua University in mid-July after a brief detention and his earlier...
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 would gradually replace...
In recent weeks, ethnic Mongolian herders have staged protests in various cities in Inner Mongolia...
As the 2012 leadership transition looms, The Economist profiles a man tipped to come out ahead in 2022: Hu Chunhua, whose current position as Party secretary of Inner Mongolia parallels Hu (no relation) Jintao’s equivalent...
A herder in Inner Mongolia who had protested against the destruction of traditional grazing land is dead after colliding with an oil transport truck. From Reuters: The statement, posted on Saturday, said truck driver Li Youliang...
Xinhua has reported the execution of a coal truck driver who ran over and killed a protesting herder, triggering a wave of unrest across Inner Mongolia. From the Associated Press: The official Xinhua News Agency said in a brief...
Of the 400 million hectares of grassland that cover more than 40% of China, 90% has suffered some degree of deterioration. From China Daily. Gao Hongbin, vice minister of agriculture, made the remarks at a national work...
A human rights group in New York has reported that new protests have broken out in Inner Mongolia. Protests broke out in the region in May after an ethinc Mongolia herder was struck and killed by a Han truck driver. Reuters...
Reuters reports the outbreak of further unrest in Inner Mongolia, with herders beaten and detained after protesting the expansion of a lead mine. The New York-based Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center said the...
The New York Times provides the historical, political and social context behind the recent protests in Inner Mongolia: …The ethnic Mongolian protests that have swept a number of cities in recent weeks are a sobering...
Rare protests broke out last month in Inner Mongolia after an ethnic Mongolian shepherd was killed after being struck by a truck driven by Han Chinese. The truck driver has been sentenced to death, AFP reports: Li Lindong was...
The following editorial from the Global Times, about recent protests in Inner Mongolia, is still accessible in English but the Chinese version has been removed (though is still accessible here): In some media reports, the...
Protests in Inner Mongolia over the killing of a Mongolian shepherd by Han truck drivers have intensified, as activists have called for a large protest on Monday. Two people have been arrested in the killing. From Reuters:...
Demonstrations have been occurring in Inner Mongolia after a Mongolian shepherd was killed by Han truck drivers. It has been announced that marshal law was declared in the region on Friday. Just how bad is the ethnic tension and...
Following demonstrations by students in Inner Mongolia over the killing of a Mongolian shepherd by Han truck drivers, police have cracked down in the region. From Reuters: Residents in Shuluun Huh Banner, or Zheng Lan Qi in...
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