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Word: mongolia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kublai Khan's family rules China. Korea and Mongolia from Dadu (today's Beijing), but related Mongol khanates in central Asia and Russia are virtually independent if not hostile; and the once subservient (and Buddhist) Il-Khans of Persia have converted to Islam. Meanwhile, drawn by the decay of Byzantium, Osman and his Turks germinate the Ottoman Empire in Anatolia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME's Atlas Of The Millennium | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...when I first heard the word communist. The 13th Dalai Lama had left a testament that I read. Also, some of the monks who were helping my studies had been in monasteries with Mongolians. They had talked about the destruction that had taken place since the communists came to Mongolia. We did not know anything about Marxist ideology. But we all feared destruction and thought of communists with terror. It was only when I went to China in 1954-55 that I actually studied Marxist ideology and learned the history of the Chinese revolution. Once I understood Marxism, my attitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: His Journey: Exile | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...stake had been driven through the heart of Marxism. It was only a matter of time before the body and the tentacles rotted away, a process that became obvious on Nov. 9, 1989, the day the Berlin Wall came down. Only China and a few morbid extremities--Tibet, Mongolia, Vietnam, North Korea and Cuba--still hold on. --Tom Wolfe, author...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME 100: Who Should Be the Person of the Century? | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

...recent missile attack on the Chinese embassy in Belgrade by the King of Superpowers, the U.S., is threatening to bring back Mao-like communist hard-liners, who once dominated Mongolia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time's Up, Nostradamus | 7/19/1999 | See Source »

...July 9, Media Terror Rupert Murdoch's Star TV broadcast the 1990 Chinese drama Chin Wong (The King of Gamblers) in Mongolia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time's Up, Nostradamus | 7/19/1999 | See Source »

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