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Tsai, Wei-chiehGraduate student, Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University, USA

Abstract

Key Words: United States of America, Mongolian studies, Inner Asia,

Tibetan Buddhism, Silk Road

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The academic tradition of Mongolian studies in America started in the years after the
Second World War. Many refugee Mongolists or Mongol intellectuals went to the United
States escaping from the Communist rule in Soviet Union or China. Due to their endeavors,
Mongolian studies had flourished in the United States. However, after the end of the Cold
War, Mongolian studies in the United States did not take advantage of the opening of
independent Mongolia State and Inner Mongolia of China. In contrast, it began to recess. The
difficulty of Mongolian studies in the United States is that it had not been widely recognized
as an independent academic field because of international politics and corresponding
academic situation under the Cold War. Therefore, the prospect of Mongolian studies in the
United States is to find its own niches in the given academic fields and keep developing.
So far, except continuing the studies about history of the Mongol Empire and its successor
khanates and relevant Altaic peoples, there are five trends: 1) to build strong links with Inner
Asian Buddhist kulturkreis and Buddhism studies through Tibetan Buddhism; 2) to connect
to East Asian Studies via history of early modern and modern history of China; 3) to bond
with Soviet Central Asia by comparing the development of socialist states; 4) to tie to Russian
Studies via the Mongols in Russia; 5) to focus on cultural exchange between China and Inner
Asia by Silk Road; 6) to conduct fieldworks of the humanities and social science in Mongolia.