New Article: The Transformation of Territoriality in the Sino-Mongolian Borderlands

My new article examines how China’s changing ethnopolitical and legal policies are reshaping the political meaning of Inner Mongolia as an autonomous border region.

The study traces the transition from a relatively flexible model of regional autonomy to a more rigid form of integration. It focuses on language and education reforms, the narrowing of regional political agency, the construction of cognitive borders, and the implications of these processes for relations between China and Mongolia.

Published in Chinese Studies Research, 2026.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.51198/chinesest2026.01.50

Image: cover of Chinese Studies Research, No. 1 (2026). Source: A. Yu. Krymskyi Institute of Oriental Studies, NAS of Ukraine — Facebook post.