{"id":750,"date":"2022-12-03T14:52:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T13:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/?p=750"},"modified":"2022-12-03T14:52:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T13:52:01","slug":"china-books-christmas-calendar-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/?p=750","title":{"rendered":"China books Christmas calendar (3)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The theme for this ”calendar” was supposed to be ”China books”, so why choose a Mongolian book today? Well, Mongolian is one of the larger minority languages in China, and this book is written and published by Angcinku\u0307u\u0307 \u5b89\u67ef\u94a6\u592b (1929-2013)<\/a>, a Mongolian author from Ulanhad (Chifeng \u8d64\u5cf0, earlier known as Ju Ud League \u662d\u4e4c\u8fbe\u76df) in Inner Mongolia. Angcinku\u0307u\u0307 was a CPC member and held high positions in the Chinese Writers Association \u4e2d\u56fd\u4f5c\u5bb6\u534f\u4f1a. He seems to have mostly written short stories, and the book of the day is a short story collection, \u5317\u56fd\u65b0\u59ff in Chinese or ”Northern New Look” in my approximate translation. It was published in 1963 and how it ended up in our collection in Gothenburg is not quite clear, but I suspect my predecessors at the University of Gothenburg, Olov Bertil Anderson (1920-1993) or Tor Ulving (1916-2014), both polyglots. Ulving knew dozens of languages, and he compiled his own ”Lhasa-Swedish” (Tibetan-Swedish) dictionary, never published but with its original index card word collection still kept at the department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I cannot say much about the content of the book as I don’t know Mongolian, but the short details in Chinese do tell us a few interesting things. The translator Ding Erjia \u4e01\u5c14\u7532 is difficult to trace, but I have found out that he or she must have been one of the more important translators from Mongolian to Chinese in the 1960s and 1970s. For example, in 1976 Ding Erjia translated the 18th century Chinese classic \u7ea2\u697c\u68a6 Dream of the Red Chamber<\/em><\/a> <\/em>into Mongolian together with a handful other translators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The street name of the publisher is also interesting, Xiluofengjie \u897f\u843d\u51e4\u8857 in Hohhot \u547c\u548c\u6d69\u7279. This is the street where the Empress Dowager Cixi \u6148\u79a7 (1839-1908) spent some of her teenage years<\/a>. Cixi was born in Beijing, but followed her father Huizheng \u60e0\u5f81 when he was transferred to serve as military magistrate \u5175\u5907\u9053 in what was then Guisui \u5f52\u7ee5. So much from a random Mongolian book in Gothenburg \u2013\u00a0and I found that it sells for 200 yuan RMB<\/a> on Chinese antiquarian book site \u5b54\u592b\u5b50\u65e7\u4e66\u7f51\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The theme for this ”calendar” was supposed to be ”China books”, so why choose a Mongolian book today? Well, Mongolian is one of the larger minority languages in China, and this book is written and published by Angcinku\u0307u\u0307 \u5b89\u67ef\u94a6\u592b (1929-2013), a Mongolian author from Ulanhad (Chifeng \u8d64\u5cf0, earlier known as Ju Ud League \u662d\u4e4c\u8fbe\u76df) in … <\/p>\n

Forts\u00e4tt l\u00e4sa \u201dChina books Christmas calendar (3)\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bocker"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2crM2-c6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754,"href":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions\/754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}