NANTES (France), Oct 13 — A French museum won backing from scholars today for its decision to halt an exhibition about Mongol leader Genghis Khan because of a censorship attempt by the Chinese government. The history museum in the western French city of Nantes announced today that it was delaying...
Genghis Khan is Mongolia’s most famous historical figure. — AFP file pic
Preparations for the show, planned in collaboration with the Inner Mongolia Museum in Hohhot, China, ran into trouble after the Chinese Bureau of Cultural Heritage pushed for changes to the original project plan, “including notably elements of biased rewriting of Mongol culture in favour of a new national narrative”, the Nantes museum said.
The province has seen weeks of protests and school boycotts over a policy requiring schools to teach politics, history, and literature in Mandarin rather than the local language. “The Nantes museum and Hohhot museum had good working relations until Beijing changed its policies and tried to impose its narrative abroad,” he added.
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