Mongols from Country to City: Floating Boundaries, Pastoralism and City Life in the Mongol Lands

From: The China Journal | Date: July 1, 2007| Author: Dunlop, Sarah | Copyright information

Mongols from Country to City: Floating Boundaries, Pastoralism and City Life in the Mongol Lands, edited by Ole Bruun and Li Narangoa. Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2006. xiv + 316 pp. £40.00/US$60.00 (hardcover).

Mongols have faced sweeping changes over the last century, with the Mongolian and Chinese Communist revolutions. In both countries, pastoral nomadism was transformed under command economies. When the collective system was dismantled in the late 20th century, herders faced a new ra...

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