Politics and Literature in Mongolia (1921-1948)

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.

"Simon Wickhamsmith’s Politics and Literature in Mongolia (1921–1948) makes an important contribution to our understanding of Mongolian literature in the first three decades of the Mongolian People’s Republic." - Phillip Marzluf, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. 82, No. 1

• Transliteration and Mongolian Names Introduction Chapter One: Prefiguring 1921 Chapter Two: Staging a Revolution Chapter Three: Landscape Re-envisioned Chapter Four: Leftward Together Chapter Five: Society in Flux Chapter Six: Negotiating Faith Chapter Seven: Life and its Value Chapter Eight: The Great Opportunistic Repression Chapter Nine: A Closer Union Appendix: Brief Biographies of Writers Index