English language index
The Mongols of Manchuria
Lattimore, Owen
Full title: The Mongols of Manchuria: Their tribal divisions, geographical distribution, historical relations with Manchus and Chinese, and present political problems.
subject: Manchuria, colonization
Owen Lattimore interviewed by Caroline Humphrey, 21st May 1983 – Part 1 (transcript)
Lattimore, Owen
Owen Lattimore describes Mongolia of the early 20th century and the aftermath of revolutions in that period.
Mongolia, Interview with Mongolian Teenager Erika: Part 1 of 2
Penn Museum
Interview with teenager Erika, daughter of Bat-erdene and Tsetseglen (filmed in Ulaanbaatar/in English)
Some Notes on a Visit to a ‘Mongolian’ Village in Yunnan, China
Sneath, David
Article presenting David Sneath’s reflections on the village depicted in the photographs from this collection.
List of early Western explorers and travellers in Inner Asia
Thrift, Eric
Table listing principal Western explorers who investigated the society and culture of Inner Asia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
subject: expeditions, explorers
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
Mongolia, the Tangut country, and the solitudes of northern Tibet, Vol. 1
Przhewalskii, Nikolai
Two-volume report of Colonel Przhewalskii’s expedition in Inner Asia, sponsored by the Geographical Society of Russia.
subject: expeditions, geography
Through Asia, Vol. 2
Hedin, Sven
[From the preface] This work does not claim to be anything more than a plain account of my journeys through Asia during the years 1893 to 1897.
subject: expeditions
Travels in Tartary, Thibet and China during the years 1844-5-6, Vol. 2
Huc, Evariste Régis
subject: expeditions
Mongolia, the Tangut country, and the solitudes of northern Tibet, Vol. 2
Przhewalskii, Nikolai
subject: expeditions, geography
Through Asia, Vol. 1
Hedin, Sven
[From the preface] This work does not claim to be anything more than a plain account of my journeys through Asia during the years 1893 to 1897.
subject: expeditions
A Journey Across Central Asia, from Manchuria and Peking to Kashmir, over the Mustagh Pass
Younghusband, Francis
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Edward Younghusband (1863–1942) was an explorer and military officer.
subject: expeditions, geography
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
James Gilmour of Mongolia : his diaries, letters and reports
Gilmour, James
James Gilmour was a Scottish Protestant missionary who served with the London Missionary Society in Mongolia and China, from 1870 until his death in 1891.
subject: diaries
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
Tracking degradation from space
Sneath, David
Satellite image (Landsat, October 1989) of the border between the Russian district of Chita and northeastern Mongolia.
subject: GIS, Inner Asia, rangeland ecology
Map of Inner Asia
MIASU
Map showing the region taken as “Inner Asia”, prepared by the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge.
subject: Inner Asia, maps
Map of the Ethno-Linguistic groups of Central Asia
CIA; Wikimedia Commons User:Pmx
Ethno-linguistic map of Central Asia
Map of Inner Asia (SRI)
Thrift, Eric
Map of Inner Asia, locating the extent of the area studied by the Sinor Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, located at Indiana University in the USA.
subject: Inner Asia, maps
Map of Inner Asia (MONDEA)
Thrift, Eric
This map shows the Mongolian areas of Inner Asia that are represented in the Mongolian Digital Ethnography Archive.
subject: Inner Asia, maps
Map of Inner Asia
Sneath, David
“Much of northern China, Mongolia, and southern Siberia is rolling grassland, used since ancient times for raising livestock.
subject: GIS, Inner Asia, rangeland ecology
Map of the Gobi Desert
Cagé, Christophe
Map showing China, Mongolia, the Himalayas, and the Gobi region
Map of High Asia
Thrift, Eric
Map of “High Asia” (French “Haute Asie”, Russian “Tsentral’naia Aziia”).
subject: Inner Asia, maps