The Cultural Revolution in Inner Mongolia 1967–1969: The Purge of the “Heirs of Genghis Khan”

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1. Michael Schoenhals and Roderick MacFarquhar, Mao's Final Revolution. Harvard: Bellknap Press, 2006.

2. See Zheng Yi, Scarlet Memorial. London, 1997.

3. See Tsering Shakya, Dragon in the Land of Snows: a History of Modern Tibet Since 1947. London, 1999.

4. Fuller details about this history can be found in Kerry Brown, The Purge of the Inner Mongolian People's Party in the Chinese Cultural Revolution 1967–1969. Cambridge University Inner Asian Series: Pimlico, 2006, upon which the material in the rest of this article is based.

5. The history of this period has been dealt with exhaustively in Christopher Atwood's monumental Young Mongols and Vigilantes in Inner Mongolia's Interregnum Decades, 1911–1931. Leiden: Brill, 2002.

6. Quoted in Stuart Schram (ed.), Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings 1912–1949. London: M.E. Sharpe, 1999, p. 71.

7. Tumen and Zhu Dongli, Kang Sheng yu Neirendang yuanan (Kang Sheng and the Unjust Case of the IMPP). Beijing: Party School Publisher, 1995.

8. Found in W. Woody, The Cultural Revolution in Inner Mongolia: Extracts from an Unpublished History, trans. and ed. Michael Schoenhals, Stockholm Occasional Papers no 20. Stockholm: University of Stockholm, 1993.

9. John Man, Genghis Khan: Life, Death, and Resurrection. London: Bantam, 2005, is the most recent biography.

10. Details of these can be found in the fourth chapter of Brown, The Purge of the Inner Mongolian People's Party in the Chinese Cultural Revolution 1967–1969.

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Kerry Brown

Kerry Brown lived in the Inner Mongolia region from 1994 to 1996. He completed a PhD at Leeds University in modern Chinese politics from 1998 to 2004, while working in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, first in London, and then Beijing. He is the author of The Purge of the Inner Mongolian People's Party in the Cultural Revolution in China 1967–1969 (Global Oriental, London, 2006) and Struggling Giant – China in the 21st Century (Anthem Press, London, 2007). This is a substantially modified version of the talk on the same subject which he gave to the Society on 8 November 2006.