Dr Uradyn E. Bulag

Photograph of Dr Uradyn BulagReader, Selwyn College

email: ueb10 [at] cam.ac.uk

Research interests: East Asia (China, Japan, Taiwan) and Inner Asia (Mongolia, Tibet); comparative colonialism and imperialism (pan-Asianism; diplomacy; alter/native urbanisation); ethnicity and nationalism (hybridity; national unity; collaborative nationalism); (un)sharing cultures and histories (Mongolia-Tibet interface; politics of friendship; national heritage regimes; translingual practices); socialist/post-socialist political forms and imagination (minority revolution; autonomous institutions and laws; frontier films).

Book cover for Collaborative Nationalism, by Dr Uradyn Bulag
Collaborative Nationalism wins ICAS Book Prize
Dr Uradyn Bulag‘s book ‘Collaborative Nationalism’ has won the International Convention of Asian Scholars 2011 book prize. The awarding committee praised Dr Bulag’s book saying, “We are pleased to award the ICAS Book Prize 2011 to Uradyn Bulag for his highly original work, well grounded in both Asian and European sources, which will inspire students [...]
April 12th, 2011
Book cover for Collaborative Nationalism, by Dr Uradyn Bulag
Collaborative Nationalism: The Politics of Friendship on China’s Mongolian Frontier
Collaborative Nationalism traces the regional and global significance of the Mongols in the fierce competition among China, Japan, Mongolia, and Russia to appropriate the Mongol heritage.
November 20th, 2010
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Transforming Technologies and Buddhist Book Culture
An AHRC project at the MIASU which will explore the relationship between Buddhist culture and technological transformations by looking at ‘the book’ as artifact, medium for communications, symbol of political authority and ritual object in the context of Tibetan Buddhism. Dr Uradyn Bulag, Dr Hildegard Diemberger and Dr Stephen Hugh-Jones with Burkhard Quessel (British Library).
August 23rd, 2010