Recent additions and reorganization

This site has expanded substantially and now even more materials are hosted here.

Thanks to Eric Schluessel sharing his files, this site now has a great collection of Xinjiang materials — so much so that I decided to rename it so that it is not limited to the IMAR. After all, we now have more on Xinjiang than Inner Mongolia. Now, the Local Histories section is quite rich.

I am now actively working on enriching the Newspaper section, from which you can find newspapers from 1940s Inner Mongolia.

I have been slowly adding the TOC’s of the Inner Mongolian academic journals to Journal Articles section. IMAR scholarship is very hard to find nowadays. While staying in UB, I was disappointed to learn that none of the Mongolian libraries bothered to keep Inner Mongolian periodicals. I have visited the Library of Congress several times to scan some for myself. Still, I have only gotten a complete scan/photograph of the TOCs of two journals: the Inner Mongolian Social Sciences Journal and the Journal of the Inner Mongolian University. These will be gradually added to this section, but I hope perhaps one day we could have a searchable database for the titles and authors at least.

In addition, I have scanned several classical literary works from the IMAR added to the collection here, by Sayichungga and Na. Sayinchogtu. So, we now have a “Literature” section, although I only have IMAR authors for now. If you have other rare literary works by authors from what is now the autonomous regions of the PRC who wrote in their native languages and whose works have become out of print and well-nigh impossible to find, please share!

In general, if you have more to add to this collection, please let me know and share your materials through this site!