Blogs in March 2020

Tea of Ulaanbaatar 4th March 2020

National Magazine Award finalist Christopher Howard’s debut novel, Tea of Ulaanbaatar, tells the story of disaffected Peace Corps volunteer Warren, who flees life in late-capitalist America to find himself stationed in the post-Soviet industrial hell of urban Mongolia. As...

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Bones of the Master: A Journey to Secret Mongolia 4th March 2020

In 1959 a young monk named Tsung Tsai (Ancestor Wisdom) escapes the Red Army troops that destroy his monastery, and flees alone three thousand miles across a China swept by chaos and famine. Knowing his fellow monks are dead,...

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Even a Daughter Is Better Than Nothing 4th March 2020

Presents a trip into the depths of Outer Mongolia. This book recounts the author’s year teaching English at the National University in Ulaanbaatar. It features his twisting journey through Mongolian drinking, heavy metal, wrestling and problematic plumbing as he...

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My Mongolian World: From Onon Bridge to Cambridge 28th February 2020

The distinguished Mongolian scholar Urgunge Onon’s reminiscences offer a rare insight into the culture and lifestyle of a Daur Mongol in the first half of the twentieth century. Covering the years from his youth to middle age, the author...

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Wolf Totem 8th February 2020

Beijing intellectual Chen Zhen volunteers to live in a remote settlement on the border of Inner and Outer Mongolia, where he discovers life of apparent idyllic simplicity amongst the nomads and the wild wolves who roam the plains. But...

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