In a classroom in Mongolia's capital, students pass over the Soviet-era Cyrillic alphabet they grew up with and turn their copybooks sideways to practice the traditional, vertical Mongolian script ...

Genghis Khan as depicted in a 15th century manuscript. Credit: Bibliothèque nationale de France Subscribe for ads-free reading On August 26 China passed a law to sideline teaching in the Mongolian ...

NEW YORK — Those who thought of China as a monolithic culture hermetically closed to foreign influence will have to think again after seeing “The World of Khubilai Khan” at the Metropolitan Museum of ...

ON THE FIRST day of the school year in Inner Mongolia, a northern province of China, some teachers in schools using the Mongolian language found their classrooms empty. To show their anger at an ...

Mongols were known for warfare but celebrated for productive peace. Humble steppe dwellers, Mongol leaders mastered the era’s most advanced technology. Embodying these tensions helped turn the Mongol ...