After China demanded that some historical facts become altered, an show on Mongol Emperor Genghis Khan was postponed until this year.
The European museum Chateau des Ducs de Bretagne in Nantes was planning the exhibit until the Chinese Bureau of Cultural Heritage insisted on full power over all of the exhibition’s texts and collections in collaboration with the Inner Mongolia Museum in Hohhot, China.
The Chinese gallery had previously agreed to loan pieces to the Chateau des Ducs de Bretagne for the show, according to a recently surfaced report from the Le Parisien, but China’s social office objected, requiring all maps, legends, and brochures be sent to China for acceptance.
” While whatever was signed and validated, a new lease was offered to us”, Bertrand Guillet, chairman of the Château des ducs de Bretagne, said in Le Parisien. It was stated in   that” It was indicated that China must be contacted for the verification of all the writings of the show, the library, as well as the maps elements.”
Chinese authorities demanded certain words be removed from the title, including” Genghis Khan”, “empire”, and” Mongol”. They argued that the new name should have read” Chinese Steppe Culture of the World.”
Additionally, the ministry sent the wording for the exhibit to Nantes in a totally new form.
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Genghis Khan had entirely vanished from the tenth page, and the Han dynasty was the subject of the Guillet article, according to Guillet. It is a mirror that fits the current national tale of China. Now, everything is under absolute command, both what is said and what is released.
After accusing the Chinese state of “censorship,” which they believe comes from “hardening, this summer, of the Chinese government’s place against the Mongolian plurality,” the French gallery believed they had no other option but to prolong the show.
The Mongolian majority has faced years of oppression from the Chinese Communist Party. After World War II, China annexed the southeastern portion of Mongolia. In an effort to oust the majority Nomads, the Chinese Communist Party promoted cultural Han Chinese to settle in the new area under the name” Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.”
The conflict between the two museums is the most recent attempt at what human rights groups refer to as” social genocide” in Mongolia.
” You understand that these, there are issues with which we do not deal”, Guillet said. Thus,” the show has not been completely canceled.” It is postponed to 2024. This is the amount of time needed to gather various items that have been discovered elsewhere than in China.
