Word: ulaanbaatar
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...season started in February," says Martin Lacey, owner of the Great British Circus, "and I've got comedy acrobats stranded in the Ukraine and Mongolian horse riders who were refused their visas in Ulaanbaatar." The holes in his lineup have forced Lacey to draft last-minute substitutes. "Our Mexican clown is stuck in Mexico, so we've got a trapeze artist pretending to be a stooge just to get everybody out of trouble," he says. "It's a mess." (See 10 things to do in London...
...Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia and Lowell House...
...resentment against the Chinese runs deep. Mongolians see China as a historical threat to their autonomy. Although they sustain a multitude of outside influences, most evident in the fact that Mongolian is now written in Cyrillic, they describe themselves as independent, whether residing in Ulaanbaatar (as over 50 percent of the population does) or freely on the steppes in nomadic gers. There are constant reminders of the animosity. Sukhbaatar Square, the center of Ulaanbaatar, commemorates the general who led the Mongolian independence against the Chinese. Children use the term “Chinese” as a taunt, synonymous with...
...Even after receiving more than $2 billion in overseas aid in just over a decade, Mongolia is struggling mightily. Four years of horrendous weather has devastated the former Soviet satellite and has driven thousands of herders like Bayarsakhan off the steppe and into the capital. By some estimates, Ulaanbaatar's population has doubled to 1 million in the past decade, overwhelming the city's limited capacities and further hampering the country's tortuous transition from a collectivized economy to a free market...
...1980s Jampur visited Ulaanbaatar. "The buildings were so big!" he exults. "There were so many people, so many cars. It was beautiful, but I wouldn't want to live there. I don't know what I'd do for work." (Or food: "City people eat too many vegetables. There's not enough fat in their diet.") His teenage son left school after fourth grade to help with their animals, and Jampur wants him to remain a herder: "Those who inherit animals will stay herdsmen. Those who don't have no choice but the city...