内蒙古通史纲要

内蒙古通史纲要
主编：郝维民 齐木德道尔吉
人民出版社 2006年

It's a book describing the history of various nations living in the Mongolia area. In the long Chinese history, various nomad nations lived north of Han people. Some of them came and went like meteor passing through the sky. It's a great challenge to describe them systematically. The book did a great job in sorting out various historical relationships between the nations. It's a very reference book for further research.

Some records on the demograph changes in the book are quite interesting:

The Han people increased from roughly one million at the beginning of 20th centurary to 5.15million at 1945. Han farmers immigritted a lot to Inner Mongolia because of the promotion of the Central government. At the same time, the Mongolia people only increased from 829k to 835k. Influx of farmers definitely negatively affected the warefare of the Mongolia nomads.

In 1956, the total population in Inner Mongolia was 8.966 million. Among that, Han people was 7.757 million, which is roughly 86.51%. Mongolia people was 1.086million, about 12.11%.

From 1978 to 2000, the total population in inner mongolia increased from 18.234 million to 23.323 million. Han people increased from 15.929 million to 18.466 million, which is about 15.92% increase. At the same time, Mongolia people increased from 1.986 million to 3.995 million, about 101% increase. The faster growther of Mongolia people definitely shows that the favorate policy towards minority.


A good book. Maybe too academia for most readers.