Under Chinese pressure, French museum halts Genghis Khan exhibition

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Under Chinese pressure, French museum halts Genghis Khan exhibition
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Chinese authorities demanded that words, including 'Genghis Khan', 'Empire' and 'Mongol' be removed. FMTNews Censorship Mongolia GengkhisKhan

China’s position towards the Mongol minority prompted the halt, says the museum director.

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 notable 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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