Why Is There A Mongolia In China? | History of Inner Mongolia

Did you know that more Mongols live in the Chinese State of Inner Mongolia than in the country that bears their name; Mongolia proper?

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[bilguun]

I am from Mongolia and visited Inner Mongolia, actually we can fully understand each other and the dialects are more than 95% intelligible I would say.

[arkadeepkundu]

Hilly: Why is there a Mongolia inside China?
Chairman Mao: Why isn't the rest of Mongolia within China?

[hyperin]

I swear, everyone i’ve ever heard talk about Genghis Khan pronounces his name differently

[Binstone]

Why is there an ireland in Great Britain? is that the answer?

[michaelsoap]

However, it is ironic that Mongolia was influenced by the Soviet Union in its early years and has adopted Cyrillic for many years. Inner Mongolia, China is the only region in the world where traditional Mongolian is used.

[armchairwarrior]

There is also mongol nation inside Russia.

[oparasatauwaya]

'Khaan', not 'khæn'. Mongolian is not like Arabic, the vowel sound for "a" is plain like the British 'ah', not like the Semitic 'alif'. Anyhow, good video!

[-souls-]

This is getting out of hand. Now there's two of them

[AverytheCubanAmerican]

I like Mongol and Tuvan throat singing, it's pretty cool and intriguing

[inguunenkhtaivan]

Mongolia in WW2: Had been sending supports. Sent 57 tanks(T-34-85). But they all brought victory. 1 Mongolia's tank reached Berlin.

[Wbliss]

Inner Mongolia is an autonomous region in China, where defence & economical development are China’s responsibility & basically, comes under China’s admn. like Xinjiang & Tibet.

[nicholaskelly]

Also it is worth noting that there was also an Inner and Outer Manchuria.
Inner Manchuria is still in China whilst Outer Manchuria north of the Amur River is in Russia. It was where Qing Dynasty 1644-1911 came from. Due to the weakness of the Qing the Russians annexed the Qing territories north of the Amur.

[dbuyandelger]

It's not hard to understand each other. We can understand each other pretty well. The issue is in terminology. While we in Mongolia named modern terms with Russian words, English words or just invent a new term, those in Inner Mongolia seem to use direct translation of Chinese terms. Otherwise we can understand each other pretty well. I do however, have harder time to understad spoken Buryat or spoken Kalmyk because they learn their mother language as a second language. What I mean is most Buryat and Kalmyk children learn to speak Russian before they learn to speak Mongolian. So they end up sounding like Russians speaking Mongolian.

The situation of Mongols before Qing dynasty is very complicated. Many Mongolians assume that back then all Mongols lived under one state. But the truth is it was similar to the Holy Roman Empire - nominally the elected Khan ruled over everyone. But in practice the elected Khan directly controlled only his own subjects and territory while his subject Khans, Taishis, Jinongs and Princes ruled over their subjects and territories independently. And they also had independent policies. To the extreme east was the tribe Khorchin, they allied themselves with the Manchus earliest. In fact, the grandmother of the Kangxi emperor was a Khorchin princess. While the Chakhars, subjects of the last elected Khan, they lived closest to Ming China and allied with the Ming and fought against the Manchus and Khorchin. The other Mongol domains - the Tumed, the Khalkhas, the Oirats, the Khoshuuds didn't give a shit and fought among themselves for religious reasons. The Tumed had one of the Dalai Lamas selected from their royal line, but he was assassinated. The Khalkhas disagreed with Khoshuuds over which way is the proper way to reach nirvana in Tibetan Buddhism and therefore wanted to control Tibet so as to put their own candidates as the religious head of Buddhism. Consequently they fought, the Khoshuuds won, migrated into Tibet and solidified the Dalai Lama as the religious head, the Khalkhas lost and were pushed North. The Oirats were probably looking at them and wondering what all the action was about and probably decided to attacked the weaker opponent, the Khalkhas. The Khalkhas apparently saw the Russians expanding into Baikal and Zabaikalsk and tried to forestall them before being utterly smashed by the Oirats and ran to the newly established and consolidated Qing dynsaty for protection. The Qing saw this as an excellent way to gain new vassals, their territories and elite cavalry troops. And they happily sent a massive army and destroyed the Oirat invasion to Khalkha territories. And then after ~60 years they sent another great army fight the Oirats. This time to completely destroy them and take their lands. And ~20 years since then, another army was sent to Tibet to push out the Khoshuuds. There brief and too oversimplified, but I think I got most of it in.

[ShawkyJames]

To all the ignorant comments below representing us Inner Mongol thinking we want be a part of today's Mongolia, NO WE DON'T.

Nobody wanted to be a part of outer Mongolia. As an Inner Mongol myself who had been to Ulaanbaatar, I could confidently say there is no future in today's Mongolia. The nation provides very little to its population, it is literally a worse version of today's Russia. 1/3 of today's outer Mongolian lives in poverty, with the crime rate of 6.18 it sits in the same rank as Bolivia, Afghanistan and Yemen. The GDP per capita of Mongolia today sits below Guatemala and significantly below Iraq. U could see drunk and hopeless people wondering around in the street of Ulaanbaatar at night while at where I came from Hulunbuir, people might just got off work at the same time.

Why would anyone wanted to reunify under that? It is ridiculous, it is funny all u lots saying this and that while sitting at ur comfy home and furthest place u've ever been to is prob the Walmart two blocks down. You guys don't know shit.

[dreamsilence]

The reason western can't figured China well is they don't know the Chinese is not a term describe a race but the people shared same culture background. Like myself, my grandparents on my mother side are Manchus and Han and on my father side are Mongol and Han. Should I judge myself as manchu ? Mongol ? or Han (funny fact is the race presented on my official document is determined by a dice - govt ask my parents decide which race of me and they rolled a dice). However, under a uniform Chinese identity is much easier for me. All of the people no matter race who admitted the Chinese culture can introduce them self as Chinese ( Another fact, did you know there is a Russian race of Chinese).

[旌旗十万斩阎罗]

I'm a han Chinese from Inner-Mongolia, when I come to my university in Shenzhen, all of my classmates are curious if I ride a horse to go to school😂.

[belfigue]

Yes, please, more East Asian history. Both Mongol support for the USSR during WWII and the life of Baron Ungern-Sternberg would be amazing. I find the recent civil wars in Russia and later in China to be fascinating. Probably because of some of their similarities with the Spanish civil war (conservative, upper classes vs leftist, lower classes; both extreme in their own way). Several white Russian families ended up settling down in Spain after WWII (because of the Franco regime and whatnot) such as the Bagrations and their descendants are still living there to this day. It is also very interesting how many of the Imperial Russian high commands were of germanic descent (e.g. Ungern-Sternberg or Wittgenstein).
Btw, several years ago, when I lived in Beijing, I attended a small live concert by a Mongolian folk band called Hanggai in a small dark bar near the Drum and Bell Tower (an older neighborhood in Beijing). The band played a typical drinking song that kept getting faster and faster while the crowd slammed their beer mugs against the wooden tables and drank at unison. Priceless

[stevenkyle]

I have seen many comments trying to correct his pronunciation of Genghis Khan. Be nice, guys. He is just a foreigner. He didn't pronounce even one single Chinese name correctly. But I just don't see any complaint. To tell the truth, I rarely see any westerner who can pronounce even one Chinese word in a proper way, and they are mocking the Chinese

[xvcelo]

lol im from mongolia and i don’t understand why yu calling khan as hain did u think we say it like that

[powervictory]

I am from Inner Mongolia and I am proud of China, my country. We enjoy the freedom of speaking out language. And 15 yr free education. My relatives in Outer Mongolia, get to speak Russian.... so haters should shut up.