The issue of interactions between the Han Chinese and Mongolian minority national in the PRC has been drawing serious attention of western scholars in recent years. The focal point of this study is the textual representation of what used to be called Outer Mongolia and its people, in Chinese authoritative writings since the beginning of the1990s, a period marked by the onset of a new era in the history of Mongolia and Sino-Mongolian relations. This study assesses the current, arguably competing or complementing, discourses on Mongolia embedded in officially approved and published texts meant...