My Mongolian world : from Onon Bridge to Cambridge / by Urgunge Onon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Onon, Urgunge, 1919-2015, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mongolia--Biography.

Mongolia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (163 pages)

Place of Publication:

Folkestone, Kent, England : Global Oriental, [2006]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The distinguished Mongolian scholar Urgunge Onon's reminiscences offer a rare insight into the culture and lifestyle of a Daur Mongol in the first half of the twentieth century. Covering the years from his youth to middle age, the author offers a wide spectrum of experiences from a disappearing world, including everyday family life, shamanist customs, the role of the bonesetter, wolf hunting, falconry, folklore and some of the great legends of the past, including the story of 'The Black Old Man'. He also recalls at length how he was kidnapped and held to ransom, his association with Prince Demchügdongrob and Mongolia's fight for independence, as well as his relationship with the Japanese Imperial Army and wartime experiences in Japan. In 1948 he took his family off to the US and studied at Johns Hopkins University - the first Mongol to do so - and acquired US citizenship in 1957. In 1963 he moved his family to England and taught at the University of Leeds until his retirement in 1985, when he became a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge, and helped to found the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit (MIASU). Onon's reminiscences have deepened over time and will be welcomed by students of Mongolian history and culture as well as those familiar with his earlier writings on shamanism and his childhood.

Contents:

Maps

Preface

1 My Family

2 The Chicken Thieves

3 Shamanism

4 Seasons

5 New Year Celebrations

6 One-Ear the Wrestler

7 Cloudy Blue

8 Sports

9 The Boy Shaman

10 Fishing on the Naun

11 Midwives and Bonesetters

12 Wolf Hunting

13 Falconry

14 The Scarred Khan

15 The Blue Wolf

16 The White Stick

17 Foreigners

18 Cause and Effect

19 A Hunting Trip

20 Stories of the Black Old Man

21 Stories of the Mountain Cat

22 The End of the Hunting Trip

23 Kidnapped and Held to Ransom

24 The Start of a Long Journey

25 Prince Demchügdongrob

26 The Prince and the Japanese

27 Japan

28 Working for the Prince

29 The End of a Dream

30 Professor

31 Ordeal by Slander

32 England

The Mongol Yurts.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-49005-1

1-282-08899-8

9786612088995

OCLC:

1024286721

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004490055 DOI