Cartographic Anxieties in Mongolia: The Bogd Khan’s Picture-Map

dc.contributor.authorTsultem, Uranchimeg
dc.contributor.departmentEdgar and Dorothy Fehnel Chair of International Studies, Herron School of Art and Designen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-31T13:39:09Z
dc.date.available2019-10-31T13:39:09Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractThis article extends cartography into ethnographic and representational practices for territorial inclusion (Hostetler 2005) and nation building (Krishna 1994). Outer Mongolia, a vassal state of the Qing Empire until 1911, produced ethnographic paintings intended as new cartographic visuals around the time of its independence. Mongolia’s last ruler, the Bogd Khan (1870–1924) commissioned the artist Balduugin Sharav to produce a large painting of the Mongol countryside titled Daily Events, a work that constitutes an unusual cartographic “picture-map” (Paul Harvey 1980) intended for a special public display. The work (now known as One Day in Mongolia) depicts the Mongolian people as a distinct ethnic group in quotidian scenes of Central Mongolian (Khalkha) nomadic life. This article demonstrates how the covert connections between the scenes together construct a Buddhist didactic narrative of the Wheel of Life, and argues that this picture-map was the result of the Tibetan-born ruler’s anxieties over ethnic identity, national unity, and the survival of his people, who strove for independence from the Qing, as well as their safe positioning vis-à-vis new political neighbors.en_US
dc.identifier.citationTsultem, U. (2016). Cartographic Anxieties in Mongolia: The Bogd Khan’s Picture-Map. Cross Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, 6, 66–87. https://doi.org/10.1353/ach.2017.0003en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1805/21288
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Hawaii Pressen_US
dc.relation.journalCross Currents: East Asian History and Culture Reviewen_US
dc.rightsAttribution 3.0 United States*
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us*
dc.sourceAuthoren_US
dc.subjectBogd Gegeenen_US
dc.subjectBogd Khanen_US
dc.subjectJetsundampa Khutukhtuen_US
dc.subjectSharaven_US
dc.subjectMongolian paintingen_US
dc.subjectMongolian Buddhist arten_US
dc.subjectKhalkhaen_US
dc.titleCartographic Anxieties in Mongolia: The Bogd Khan’s Picture-Mapen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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