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Politics and Literature in Mongolia (1921-1948)

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By (author): Simon Wickhamsmith

Politics and Literature in Mongolia (1921-1948) investigates the relationship between literature and politics during Mongolias early revolutionary period. Between the 1921 socialist revolution and the first Writers Congress held in April 1948, the literary community constituted a key resource in the formation and implementation of policy. At the same time, debates within the party, discontent among the population, and questions of religion and tradition led to personal and ideological conflict among the intelligentsia and, in many cases, to trials and executions. Using primary texts, many of them translated into English for the first time, Simon Wickhamsmith shows the role played by the literary arts poetry, fiction and drama in the complex development of the new society, helping to bring Mongolias nomadic herding population into the utopia of equality, industrial progress and social well-being promised by the Mongolian Peoples Revolutionary Party. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Sep 2020
  • Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
  • Publication City/Country: Netherlands
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9789462984752

About Simon Wickhamsmith

Simon Wickhamsmith is a scholar and translator of modern Mongolian literature. He teaches in the Writing Program and the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at Rutgers University. Franck Billé is a cultural anthropologist based at the University of California Berkeley where he is program director for the Tang Center for Silk Road Studies. He is the author of Sinophobia (Hawaii 2015) coauthor of On the Edge (Harvard 2021) editor of Voluminous States (Duke 2020) and coeditor of Yellow Perils (Hawaii 2019) and Frontier Encounters (Open Book 2012). He is currently finalizing his latest book Somatic States: On Cartography Geobodies Bodily Integrity (Duke University Press). More information about his current research is available on his website: www.franckbille.com. Professor Caroline Humphrey Professor Humphrey is an anthropologist who has worked across Asia and countries of the former Soviet Union. She is currently based at the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit at Cambridge which she co-founded and she is a Director of Research at the Department of Social Anthropology. She has been a Fellow of King's since 1978.

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