Some ethnic Mongolians are fighting back against attempts by the Chinese state to suppress their language and culture
y Mongolian name is Adiya, though the name on my passport is Wu Guoxing. I’m 34 and was born in the eastern part of Inner Mongolia, a region in northern China. When I was little all my lessons were in Mongolian and I used Mongolian in my daily life. That changed as I grew up.tens of thousands of Han Chinese, who make up more than 92% of China’s population, as migrants to Mongolian areas
At first, parents thought their kids were just playing computer games, so I didn’t charge for the lessons. The students liked the classes and their grades started rising. Many parents were pleased, so I collected tuition fees in the second year. But when the local education and commerce departments found out I was teaching some classes in Mongolian, they told me to stop. They couldn’t point to any specific law I’d broken: they just said I had to teach in Mandarin. I decided to keep going.
The government’s new policy provoked protests in every city in Inner Mongolia. On September 1st, the first day of school, I went with some friends to the entrance of a high school affiliated with Inner Mongolia Normal University. More than 100 people were gathered outside that morning as parents arrived with their kids.
We Mongolians are a minority. We want to protect our language, but there’s nothing we can do to resist the power of the state. Friends started telling me that the party was arresting people who’d participated in the protests. They told me I should try to leave: we didn’t know if the people who’d been carted off were even alive.n January 2021 I left China. I was able to fly from Inner Mongolia to the city of Tianjin, and then eventually on to Phnom Penh in Cambodia.
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