Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit

Projects

	Oral History of Twentieth Century Mongolia Currently needs fixing.
	Pathways to understanding the changing climate: time and place in cultural learning about the environment An AHRC funded project developing both a valuable record of environmental perceptions and a method to record and explore in innovative and creative ways the lived experience of environmental change. This will be an important step towards placing the experience of communities at the heart of policy, education and current debates on climate change, including schools and schoolchildren in this process.
	Where Rising Powers Meet: China and Russia At Their North Asian Border An ESRC funded network project focusing on the border area of China, Russia and Mongolia. As ‘rising powers’, China and Russia often attract attention, but their interactions with one another, and comparisons between them, are less understood. Yet the two powers share thousands of miles of border, with the country of independent Mongolia lodged in-between in the central part of the long frontier. This is a project from social anthropology, with multi-disciplinary links, aiming to establish an online network and organise events that will for the first time bring together international discussion on the theme of the border economies of the three countries
	Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project `The aim of this project is to audio-video document Kalmyk culture in the broadest sense and to produce a comprehensive database on the endangered cultural heritage of the Kalmyks. This knowledge, deposited in open-access digital archives, will provide Kalmyk communities with a resource that they can draw upon to compare, revive and popularise their endangered culture in the future..
	Transforming Technologies and Buddhist Book Culture: the Introduction of Printing and Digital Text Reproduction in Buddhist Societies AN AHRC funded project exploring the relationship between Buddhist culture and technological transformations by looking at ‘the book’ as artifact, medium for communication, symbol of political authority and ritual object in the context of Tibetan Buddhism.
	Climate Histories: Communicating Cultural Knowledge of Environmental Change The research carried out by this thematic group concerns Earth's cryosphere (glaciers and ice sheets, sea ice and permafrost) and the landscapes affected by the cryosphere.
	A Tibetan Woman Lama and her Reincarnations This project, which explores the life of a 15th century Tibetan princess and her line of female reincarnations at the bSam-sdings monastery, involves a team of researchers from the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit (University of Cambridge) and the British Library as well as a wide-ranging collaboration with Tibetological institutions across the world.
	Climate Histories: Communicating Cultural Knowledge of Environmental Change AN AHRC funded project exploring the relationship between Buddhist culture and technological transformations by looking at ‘the book’ as artifact, medium for communication, symbol of political authority and ritual object in the context of Tibetan Buddhism.
	Tibetan and Mongolian Rare Books and Manuscripts The Tibetan-Mongolian Rare Books and Manuscripts (TMRBM) project aims to document, consolidate, catalogue and make accessible the rare Tibetan and Mongolian books in the University Library, Cambridge, the Bodleian Library, Oxford and the British Library in London, with focus on the collection acquired during the Younghusband Mission to Tibet in 1903–4.