Oct 15, 2020 04:04 AM
China demanded a French museum to remove the words 'Genghis Khan' from a Genghis Khan exhibition, as it continues cracking down on Mongolian culture
https://www.businessinsider.com/china-de...wn-2020-10
EXCERPTS: A French museum was forced to postpone its exhibition about the Mongolian warlord Genghis Khan after Chinese authorities demanded control over many elements, multiple reports say. The Chinese Bureau of Cultural Heritage asked the museum to remove the words "Genghis Khan," "empire" and "Mongol" from the show, the museum's director said in a statement seen by the Associated Press.
The bureau had asked the museum make the changes "in favor a new national narrative," the director said, according to the AP. The museum connected the censorship attempt to China's recent crackdown on Mongolian culture.
[...] China has accelerated its crackdown on ethnic and religious culture in the country, including Uighur, Hui, and Utsul Muslims, as well as Tibetans, in recent years. In August, the Chinese government also imposed a policy of reduced lessons in the Mongolian language in favor of more Mandarin Chinese lessons... (MORE)
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https://www.businessinsider.com/china-de...wn-2020-10
EXCERPTS: A French museum was forced to postpone its exhibition about the Mongolian warlord Genghis Khan after Chinese authorities demanded control over many elements, multiple reports say. The Chinese Bureau of Cultural Heritage asked the museum to remove the words "Genghis Khan," "empire" and "Mongol" from the show, the museum's director said in a statement seen by the Associated Press.
The bureau had asked the museum make the changes "in favor a new national narrative," the director said, according to the AP. The museum connected the censorship attempt to China's recent crackdown on Mongolian culture.
[...] China has accelerated its crackdown on ethnic and religious culture in the country, including Uighur, Hui, and Utsul Muslims, as well as Tibetans, in recent years. In August, the Chinese government also imposed a policy of reduced lessons in the Mongolian language in favor of more Mandarin Chinese lessons... (MORE)
RELATED: Han Chinese (the majority ethnic group the Communist Party privileges)