handle.invalid @handle.invalid · 11/05/202615 years ago today, a Mongolian herder named Mergen was killed by a Chinese coal truck. I built an interactive map of every mine that has come for the same land since. 423 named. 4,843 visible from satellite. 10,000+ counted. 110
handle.invalid @handle.invalid · 22/04/2026soyonbo.substack.com/p/where-is-d...soyonbo.substack.comWhere is Danniel William: an email worth reading twiceHow to read an email's metadata 000
handle.invalid @handle.invalid · 19/04/2026I measured every People's Daily front page for the last 17 months, to the pixel. A single article has not exceeded 16% of the page in that window — unless the subject is Xi Jinping. open.substack.com/pub/soyonbo/...open.substack.comThe 16 Percent Ceiling: a rule only Xi can breakPropagandaScope has new findings 032
handle.invalid @handle.invalid · 14/04/2026Bill Bishop flagged it. I checked the data. He was right. 人民领袖 ("People's Leader") is trending back into Chinese state media — a Mao-era honorific that's been off-limits since 1978. Full analysis in today's Sinocism. Data via PropagandaScope. sinocism.com/p/the-people... 021
handle.invalid @handle.invalid · 05/04/2026PropagandaScope in Newsweek. Our data shows China's "ethnic unity" slogan is amplified up to 15x more in minority regions like Xinjiang, Tibet, and Southern Mongolia compared with the national People's Daily. This is what the platform was built to reveal. The data is public and growing. 153
handle.invalid @handle.invalid · 02/04/2026"Soul Casting": Leaked Document Reveals How China Controls What Minority Students Read open.substack.com/pub/soyonbo/...open.substack.com"Soul Casting": Leaked Document Reveals How China Controls What Minority Students ReadAn internal directive from Inner Mongolia University establishes a five-step system to politically vet every minority-language textbook. 022
handle.invalid @handle.invalid · 30/03/2026I obtained an internal Party document from Inner Mongolia University, stamped "strictly prohibited from external distribution," that details 19 directives for eliminating the Mongolian language. The original Chinese PDF is also available for download. open.substack.com/pub/soyonbo/...open.substack.com'Must Be Corrected': A Leaked University Document Reveals China's Plan to Erase the Mongolian LanguageAn internal Party directive from Inner Mongolia University 089
Reposted by @handle.invalidMaura Elizabeth Cunningham @mauracunningham.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Using his new PropagandaScope tool to monitor 28 provincial Party newspapers, @soyonbo.bsky.social examines how Xi Jinping's new Party education campaign to promote a “correct view of political achievement” has been discussed to varying degrees across the PRC.soyonbo.substack.comXi Launched a Political Campaign. I Measured How 21 Provinces Responded.PropagandaScope tracked one million articles to find out 052
handle.invalid @handle.invalid · 17/03/2026open.substack.com/pub/soyonbo/...open.substack.comPropagandaScope is live: tracking keyword propagation across China's provincial party newspapersA quantitative tool for tracking how political keywords propagate through China's provincial press 051
handle.invalid @handle.invalid · 13/03/2026I built PropagandaScope, a website that automatically scans party newspapers across 20 Chinese provinces to measure how political keywords propagate through China's propaganda system. propagandascope.org/aboutpropagandascope.orgAbout | PropagandaScope 100
handle.invalid @handle.invalid · 13/03/2026"Mongolian is a backward language, it can only describe nomadic culture like cows, sheep, or grassland." - my re-education teacher in 2020 0128
Reposted by @handle.invalidPEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 21/02/2026"The online space has become our very last [classroom], museum, and community hall,” journalist @soyonbo.bsky.social tells PEN America. #InternationalMotherLanguageDay 1125
handle.invalid @handle.invalid · 26/01/2026The Japanese version is out! courrier.jp/news/tag/lon...courrier.jpクーリエ・ジャポンクーリエ・ジャポンは世界中のメディアから記事を厳選し、日本語に翻訳して掲載しています。グローバルな視点で物事を考える習慣が身につきます。 000
handle.invalid @handle.invalid · 21/01/2026Thanks to PEN America. When a language is taken away, it’s not just words that are lost, it’s memory, connection, and the ability to speak. 030
Reposted by @handle.invalidErik Hansson @erikhansson.bsky.social · 21/01/2026What is happening to #Mongolian #language and culture online in China? pen.org/inner-mongol... via @penamerica.bsky.social #minority #langskypen.orgWhat is happening to Mongolian language and culture online in China?More than six million Mongolians living in China are having their culture, language, and identity ripped away from them. 021
handle.invalid @handle.invalid · 21/01/2026Grateful to collaborate with Professor Leibold on this work. What mattered most in this process was taking policy discussions out of abstraction and grounding them in lived institutional realities. It is an honor. madeinchinajournal.com/2026/01/20/r...madeinchinajournal.comRectifying Names, Erasing Mongols: The Unmaking of Mongolian Education in ChinaOn a clear October morning in 2025, two massive cranes rolled up to a middle school in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Workers prised off the large Chinese and Mongolian signs running along the ... 021
handle.invalid @handle.invalid · 21/01/2026pen.org/report/inner... This new report from PEN America matters because it moves beyond policy language and looks at how repression actually works inside institutions. Highly recommended.pen.org“Save Our Mother Tongue”Beijing has silenced Mongolian voices, all the while expanding its arsenal of tactics to influence the information ecosystem. 000
handle.invalid @handle.invalid · 03/12/2025substack.com/@goldkorn/no...substack.comThe end of a Mongolian-language newspaperFrom wolf hearts to Xi Jinping thought: Journalist Soyonbo Borjgin talks about growing up in Hohhot and his “re-education” after protests against the suppression of Mongolian language. 010
handle.invalid @handle.invalid · 22/11/2025Signal and Southern Mongolia open.substack.com/pub/soyonbo/...open.substack.comSignal and Southern MongoliaAn Official Police Equipment List and its capabilities 000
Reposted by @handle.invalidLongreads @longreads.com · 04/11/2025"The Weekly printed the piece, and it launched my career – which came to an end five years later, in 2020, when the government abruptly shuttered the magazine." —Soyonbo Borjgin for the first issue of @equatormag.bsky.socialequator.orgThe Xi Jinping School of Journalism • Articles • EQUATORThe education and reeducation of a Mongolian reporter 022
handle.invalid @handle.invalid · 01/11/2025www.equator.org/articles/the...equator.orgThe Xi Jinping School of Journalism • Articles • EQUATORThe education and reeducation of a Mongolian reporter 072
handle.invalid @handle.invalid · 29/10/2025open.substack.com/pub/soyonbo/...open.substack.comHow China Shadowbanned "Mongolian"Somewhere in the system, the name is still there, waiting for its next approval. 010
handle.invalid @handle.invalid · 27/10/2025open.substack.com/pub/soyonbo/...open.substack.comThe Final Moments of the Mongolian School SignThere are six million Mongolians living in China. 010
handle.invalid @handle.invalid · 19/11/2024www.voachinese.com/a/mongolians...voachinese.com海外蒙古人欢迎美国国会推出南蒙古人权法案美国国会参议院来自俄勒冈州的民主党参议员杰夫·默克利（Jeff Merkley）与来自阿拉斯加州的共和党参议员丹·沙利文（Dan Sullivan）近日（11月13日）共同提出一项两党法案：《南蒙古人权政策法案》（The Southern Mongolian Human Rights Policy Act）。 010
handle.invalid @handle.invalid · 19/11/2024Mongolians in Exile Welcome U.S. Senators Introducing Bipartisan Bill to Address Human Rights Violations in Southern Mongolia. For decades, many Mongolians have faced relentless efforts to erase our language, traditions, and way of life. From the closure of schools teaching in our (thread) 110
