Photograph of Handgate, Xinjiang by Tsui Yen Hu, 1993, No. 40
Tsui Yen Hu

A freshwater spring at the spring pastures, with herders using the water.

subject: pastoralism

Photograph of Handgate, Xinjiang by Tsui Yen Hu, 1993, No. 02
Tsui Yen Hu

A scene at the Handgate centre

subject: Handgate centre

Photograph of Handgate, Xinjiang by Tsui Yen Hu, 1993, No. 41
Tsui Yen Hu

New born lambs and hay, at the spring pasture

subject: pastoralism

Photograph of Handgate, Xinjiang by Tsui Yen Hu, 1993, No. 20
Tsui Yen Hu

Showing Buddhist scriptures inside the temple. Photo of Mt. Kailash in background.

subject: Buddhism

Photograph of Handgate, Xinjiang by Tsui Yen Hu, 1993, No. 31
Tsui Yen Hu

Dr. Marsel showing his ‘secret book’ about Uriyanghai Mongolian mecilicine

subject: medicine

Photograph of Handgate, Xinjiang by Tsui Yen Hu, 1993, No. 12
Tsui Yen Hu

A scene at the centre of Handgate

subject: Handgate centre

Photograph of Handgate, Xinjiang by Tsui Yen Hu, 1993, No. 26
Tsui Yen Hu

Doctors and nurses of Handgate hospital

subject: medicine

Photograph of Handgate, Xinjiang by Tsui Yen Hu, 1993, No. 27
Tsui Yen Hu

Seeing a doctor, Handgate hospital, Altai

subject: medicine

Sven Hedin’s expedition through the Gobi
Hedin, Sven

A silent documentary made in 1928 of Swedish explore Sven Hedin’s expedition through the Gobi desert of Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang.

subject: Gobi, ethnographic film, expeditions, explorers

Путешествия Г.Н. Потанина по Китаю, Тибету и Монголии [Travels of GN Potanin in China, Tibet, and Mongolia]
Potanin, GN

Grigory Potanin was a Russian ethnographer and natural historian, whose work concerned Mongolian and Uighur language and culture.

subject: expeditions

Across Mongolian plains; a naturalist's account of China's "great northwest"
Andrews, Roy Chapman

A popular narrative of the second Asiatic expedition of the American Museum of Natural History, 1918-1919.

subject: expeditions

Map of NK Roerich’s Central Asian expeditions
Roerich Museum

Map showing the expedition routes of NK Roerich, from the Roerich Museum.

subject: expeditions, maps

Map of Evariste Huc’s travels
Dufour, H

Map accompanying “Souvenirs d’un voyage dans la Tartarie, le Thibet et la Chine”, Evariste Huc, 1850

subject: expeditions, maps

Central Asia from Peking to Yarkand and Kashmir via the Mustagh Pass: Illustrating the journeys of Captain F. E. Younghusband, Kings Dragoon Guards
Murray, John

A map showing the route of Frank E Younghusband on his trip from Beijing to Kashmir.

subject: expeditions, maps

Map of the Gobi Desert
Cagé, Christophe

Map showing China, Mongolia, the Himalayas, and the Gobi region

subject: Gobi, maps

A Map of Western Tartary Drawn from the Survey of the Jesuits and Mr. Kyrillow's Map of the Russian Empire
Kitchin, Thomas

A fascinating 1747 European mapping of the Gobi Desert and the eastern portion of the Silk Route region by Thomas Kitchin.

subject: Gobi, maps, silk route

How should Inner Mongolia be developed?Inner Mongolia: the dialectics of colonization and ethnicity building
Uradyn E Bulag

The Chinese regime, which has granted unified autonomy to the Mongols, has also instituted various mechanisms to undermine the Mongols as a viable community.

subject: Inner Asia

Respect and Power without Resistance: Investigations of Interpersonal Relations among the Deed Mongols
Bum-Ochir, Dulam

Doctoral dissertation on Deed Mongols and respect for the State.

subject: Deed Mongols, anthropology of the state

Prostitution and the Transformation of the Chinese Trading Town of Ereen
Lacaze, Gaëlle

This chapter first examines the transformation of Ereen from 2007 to 2010.

subject: Prostitution, Border cities, Urbanization