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Professor Atwood will be on leave 2006-07 academic year. This course will be taught by CEUS Ph.D student Tristra Newyear during the Fall 2006 semester.
In 1900 Mongolia was a largely nomadic country, run by hereditary aristocracy formed of the descendants of Genghis Khan and by lamas of the Tibetan Buddhist church, and dominated by viceroys from China's last dynasty of the Manchus. In 1950 it was the Soviet Union's most loyal satellite ruled by Mongolia's little Stalin, the dictator Choibalsang. In 2000, Mongolia enters the new century as an independent nation with a multi-party democracy, sandwiched between China and Russia, and struggling to enter the ranks of Asia's economic success stories. This course will explore the wrenching changes that Mongolia has gone through in the course of this century--poverty- stricken Chinese dependency, theocracy, revolutionary junta, Communist purges, ailing command economy, transitional democracy. Areas covered will include foreign policy, political events, circulation of elites, Buddhism and modern ideologies, demography and urbanization, and transformations in nomadic pastoralism.
Requirements: There will be a midterm, a final, and one paper. Grades will be based on these plus points for attendance and participation
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