INTL China insists Genghis Khan exhibit not use words 'Genghis Khan' (in France)

[Melodi]

No this is NOT The Onion or the Babylon Bee - this is a REAL news story and it shows just how crazy the Chinese are getting when it comes to trying to make demands on how "they" are presented to the world - sorry guys, love him or hate him, the man many Mongolians still worship and call The Ancestor, did bust up one of your dynasties and start his own - that's HISTORY, it won't go away because Mongolia is on the "out" list this year lol.....Melodi

China insists Genghis Khan exhibit not use words 'Genghis Khan'

Museum in Nantes pulls show after intervention by Beijing, which comes as Communist party hardens discrimination against ethnic Mongols

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China insists Genghis Khan exhibit not use words 'Genghis Khan'
Museum in Nantes pulls show after intervention by Beijing, which comes as Communist party hardens discrimination against ethnic Mongols

Genghis Khan statue in Mongolia. Photograph: G Adventures, Inc

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Wed 14 Oct 2020 03.06 BST

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A French museum has postponed an exhibit about the Mongol emperor Genghis Khan citing interference by the Chinese government, which it accuses of trying to rewrite history.
The Château des ducs de Bretagne history museum in the western city of Nantes said it was putting the show about the fearsome 13th century leader on hold for over three years.
The museum’s director, Bertrand Guillet, said: “We made the decision to stop this production in the name of the human, scientific and ethical values that we defend.”


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It said the Chinese authorities demanded that certain words, including “Genghis Khan,” “Empire” and “Mongol” be taken out of the show. Subsequently they asked for power over exhibition brochures, legends and maps.
The spat comes as the Chinese government has hardened its discrimination against ethnic Mongols, many of whom live in the northern province of Inner Mongolia.
The exhibit was planned in collaboration with the Inner Mongolia Museum in Hohhot, China. But tensions arose, the Nantes museum said, when the Chinese Bureau of Cultural Heritage pressured the museum for changes to the original plan, “including notably elements of biased rewriting of Mongol culture in favour of a new national narrative”.
The museum branded it “censorship” and said it underlined a “hardening … of the position of the Chinese government against the Mongolian minority”.
The Chinese consulate in Paris did not immediately return calls for comment.

 

[Doc1]

And the French surrender yet again. It's a national pastime.

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[Melodi]

And the French surrender yet again. It's a national pastime.

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The depends on if they were doing a display of items already in Europe or were depending on Inner-Mongolia to share artifacts and items (and China as) for the display.

My response to such a silly demand would be to delay the exhibit (as the French are doing) and contact the Independent country of Outer Mongolia for help in putting a slightly different one instead. Using things from Their museums or whatever help and sponsorship they can provide - tourism is HUGE there in normal times, so that aspect could be an inducement to help out.

And I'd contact the manager of the Mongolian Band "Hu" and see if they would like to do some a concert or two in the area at say the Grand Opening and perform their alternative Hit Song that basically calls for the Spirit of Genghis Khan to return..

But then I'm a Scorpio and I'm kind of evil that way, I have no idea what the French will actually do, but I'm spreading this story far and wide because it is so amazingly silly and shows just how out-of-touch the Chinese CCP is with reality.

The Soviets didn't much like the role the Norse played in their ancestry either and kept a lid on archeologists who wanted to study it, but even they never pretended The Russ did not exist....

 

[bw]

Just like geneological Eve's, there are Adams. Genghis Khan is on track to be an Adam. A significant percentage of the world population is descended from him. Adams happen faster than Eves, and last for a shorter time. We can't trace them using mtDNA, but they're out there.

 

[Sacajawea]

Nantes is not Chinese, last I heard. So how does the CCP have the gall to make these petty "requests" of the museum? We in the west are not beholden to their rules.

Or are the CCP that afraid that they're losing their mandate of heaven?

 

[dylanM]

Melodi,the HU & their manager are stuck in Australia. They do regular vids on their daily life in a house their .Have been there after going on concert tour & not getting out of the country in time before the covid lockdown. They are still recording new music they are doing music for the new star wars. They just did an online benefit to raise money for the people of Mongolia.

 

[Melodi]

Nantes is not Chinese, last I heard. So how does the CCP have the gall to make these petty "requests" of the museum? We in the west are not beholden to their rules.

Or are the CCP that afraid that they're losing their mandate of heaven?

Again, I suspect (but do not yet know for sure) the reason is that China was providing a lot of the pieces for the exhibit (or their province of Inner Mongolia was) and the CCP controls what does or does not leave China for such displays.

If this is the case (and I'm trying to find out), then the exhibit would HAVE to be delayed while the French Curators figured out what to do next.

This article is starting to circulate far and wide on the archeology twitter lists and similar places, and making something the Chinese hate worse than anything - a laughing stock and they so deserve it.

As for the genetic thing, I was just joking with Nightwolf about this, I said I could just see the next issue of the Chinese version of "Genetics Today" or something having to change the name of the one human (and his brothers) that we know the name of who sired more people alive on Earth today than anyone else to "Unperson G" or something lol.

A few years ago a Chinese restaurant in London ran a "special" of a free meal for any man who could bring in his DNA report and show he was descended from Ghengis Khan, they had to end the special after one week because they had given so many meals away they were going to go broke.

And that was when DNA tests over here were still pretty expensive!

 

[Melodi]

Melodi,the HU & their manager are stuck in Australia. They do regular vids on their daily life in a house their .Have been there after going on concert tour & not getting out of the country in time before the covid lockdown. They are still recording new music they are doing music for the new star wars. They just did an online benefit to raise money for the people of Mongolia.

I knew that I was saying "if times were normal" ...but thank you for the update, I might not have known this. They were supposed to do a European tour too.

 

[Meadowlark]

note the ccp is getting more and more uppity.

 

[The Hammer]

Would "the Mongolian formerly known as Genghis Khan" work?

How about "in a fashion reminiscent of Jenjis Khan", a la John Kerry?

 

[dawnbringr]

And the French surrender yet again. It's a national pastime.

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[Melodi]

Exhibition closed over Chinese demands to not use words ‘Genghis Khan’

Director says ‘we made this decision to stop this production in the name of the human, scientific and ethical values that we defend’

www.independent.co.uk

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Genghis Can’t: Exhibition closed over Chinese demands to not use words ‘Genghis Khan’
Director says ‘we made this decision to stop this production in the name of the human, scientific and ethical values that we defend’

Samuel Osborne@SamuelOsborne93
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The Genghis Khan equestrian statue, the world’s largest equestrian statue, in Tsonjin Boldog, near Ulan Baator(JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images)
A museum in France said it decided to postpone an exhibit about the Mongol emperor Genghis Khan citing interference by the Chinese government, which has accused it of trying to rewrite history.
The Chateau des ducs de Bretagne history museum in the western city of Nantes said it was putting the show about the 13th century leader on hold for over three years.
In a statement on Monday, the museum's director, Bertrand Guillet, said "we made the decision to stop this production in the name of the human, scientific and ethical values that we defend."

It alleged the Chinese authorities demanded certain words, including "Genghis Khan", "Empire" and "Mongol" be taken out of the show. It also said that they asked for power over exhibition brochures, legends and maps.


It comes as China takes a tougher stance against ethnic Mongols, many of whom live in the northern province of Inner Mongolia.
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The exhibit was planned in collaboration with the Inner Mongolia Museum in Hohhot, China.
Tensions arose, the Nantes museum said, when the Chinese Bureau of Cultural Heritage pressured the museum for changes to the original plan, “including notably elements of biased rewriting of Mongol culture in favour of a new national narrative.”
The museum branded the changes “censorship” and said it underlined a “hardening … of the position of the Chinese government against the Mongolian minority”.
Additional reporting by Associated Press