When you first think of Genghis Khan, you invariably picture a fierce-looking barbarian Mongol in a flashy helmet with awesome facial hair of the Fu Manchu persuasion. And then you figure he was the ...

Mongolian life from the beginning of the 20th century to today is reconstructed through 3 authentic gers (traditional Mongolian yurts or tents): under feudal (Manchu Dynasty during the early 20th ...

The Manchus are all but gone now, fast disappearing as a distinct ethnic group, their language nearly extinct. But from the mid-17th to the early 20th century they ruled the most populous country in ...

My taxi driver — a 20-something young man of Uyghur descent — swiveled his head and looked at me, confused. “Where did you say?” “To Tughluq Timur’s mazar,” I repeated. “The mausoleum of the old ...