Word: mongolia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to report, Outer Mongolia is to be declared a republic. After the Chinese revolution...
...Outer Mongolia (about half the size of continental U. S.) declared its independence from China and proclaimed as Emperor the Hutuktu (Living Buddha). The Hutuktu, spiritual and temporal head of the State, ruled autocratically in much the same way as the Popes used to rule the Papal States...
...guaranteed by Russia in 1912 and in 1913 a Chino-Russian pact recognized the autonomy of the country, but under Chinese sovereignty. The Russian revolution of 1917, however, brought swarms of Bolsheviki into the country and the Hutuktu was forced in 1919 to petition China for the cancelation of Mongolia's independence...
...this province of Kansu, which sticks out between Mongolia and Tibet like a bottle-neck, that we did some of our most interesting and least spectacular work. The Indian traders had used this trade-route for centuries, and we found many of their original holy books, written on long paper scrolls, in the original Sanskrit, or translated by medieval scholars into Chinese or Turki. It was significant because of the light it shed on the influence these traders, straggling periodically over the mountain passes, had on the art of the early Chinese...
...attempt on the part of Peking students to force Koo's hand by staking a demonstration in favor of recognition. The Cabinet approved Koo's suggestion of a recognition treaty, to be signed simultaneously with an exchange of notes, settling the Soviet evacuation of Mongolia and the question of Russian Church property...