This follows the real slap in the face that is the Gengis Khan exhibition in Nantes right now — an exhibition which took six years to prepare without Beijing, after the Chinese had in the same way tried to forbid the use of “empire” in relation with either the Xiongnu or the Mongols in the exhibition and the catalogue. As it is, with objects from all over the world, including private collections, the exhibition is a feast, including heretical maps – one delightfully showing “the silk roads in the time of the Mongols.”
Brigitte Duzan <chinese_shortstories@yahoo.fr>