nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20201108-235504-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 201108s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20201108-235504-0 doi eng 342 23 Bán, Marina Author aut Control through Intervention How Governments Shape Historical Memory Abroad Bán, Marina Verfassungsblog 2020-11-08 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier In October 2020, the director of the Musée d’Histoire de Nantes announced the postponement of an upcoming exhibition on Mongol history and culture. The exhibition was supposed to be the result of a collaboration between the Nantes museum and the Inner Mongolia Museum in Hohhot, China. The decision of postponement came amidst an accusation of interference from the Chinese Bureau of Cultural Heritage. According to the director, The Chinese Bureau requested unprecedented control over the exhibition’s organization, including eliminating references to the Mongol Empire and Genghis Khan. The director of the Nantes Museum stated that the breakdown in the collaboration was caused by the Chinese Bureau’s attempt to ‘rewrite history and erase Mongol culture’; an effort the museum could not abide by. funded by the government CC BY-SA 4.0 Academic Freedom Freedom of Expression Memory Laws Mongol Suppression Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/control-through-intervention/ raw object