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in an uprising in his hometown Hailar, attempting to establish local autonomy. Sources refer to this by a variety of names, including the "Hulunbuir Uprising" and "Barga Rebellion". However, the Comintern repudiated Stepanov's statement, and the Mongolian and Soviet governments denied all association
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In the immediate aftermath of the Hulunbuir Uprising, internal CPC documents gave a rather positive evaluation of Merse, describing him and the other members of the IMPRP's left-wing faction as having gained widespread popular support through their mass work. However, later PRC historiography of
331:, to try to obtain material support from the Japanese to organise a Mongolian autonomous army in eastern Inner Mongolia as a ruse, and once done head west to support the anti-Japanese movement. Another account states that he went to Ulaanbaatar in 1932 to try to obtain support for his plans. 319:, fearing that Merse would be used to convince other Mongols to support the Japanese, had him assassinated. Later authors, though agreeing with the possibility that Zhang held such views, dismiss the assassination claims; they instead state that Merse went to the Soviet consulate in 172:
Merse studied at the Mongol-Manchu School (滿蒙學校) in Hailar. In 1910 he entered the Heilongjiang First Provincial Middle School (黑龍江省立第一中學), graduating four years later. In 1915, he enrolled in the Russian Language Institute (俄文專修館) of the
181:. After completing his course there in 1917, he returned to his hometown Hailar, where in 1918 he established a private school. In 1920 the local government converted it into a banner-supported public school; he continued as principal. 277:. He also worked as Zhang's personal secretary. He repudiated the Soviet Union in published articles. He also stepped back from his promotion of Inner Mongolian independence, instead seeking greater autonomy under the 359:
Inner Mongolia up to the late 1990s portrayed Merse as a villain, a "splittist", and even a rightist like Serengdongrub. However, Daur in the PRC increasingly viewed him as a hero beginning in the 1980s. The 1986
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described him positively. The following year, the Daur History and Language Working Group issued a reprint of his 1929 lectures on "the Mongolian problem". A bust of him stands in a public square in the
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would later try to frame this purely as a split between KMT and CCP supporters). Merse and other left-wing elements within the party took steps towards more radical action: organising an armed uprising.
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The KMT-CCP split of 1927 reflected itself into the IMPRP's own internal situation. The party split into two factions under the pro-China Serengdongrub and the pro-Ulaanbaatar/Moscow Merse (though
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with the uprisings, and arrested Merse's associates who had gone to Ulaanbaatar during and after the uprising. No outside support would be forthcoming. The Chinese authorities arrested
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The Mongolia-Tibet interface: opening new research terrains in Inner Asia — Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Oxford, 2003
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in September 1929. The Barga, for their part, fled to independent Mongolia, where they would become the target of political repressions in the next decade.
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to Mukden, he began to realise the value of religious figures in drawing support for the nationalist movement. He would go on to accompany
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Reins of liberation: an entangled history of Mongolian independence, Chinese territoriality, and great power hegemony, 1911-1950
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in a visit to the Panchen Lama at Beijing, a meeting which resulted in their offer to build monasteries in Jerim League and
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in connection with the uprising in August 1928. Merse was thus forced to end his uprising and make peace with
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In the aftermath, Merse himself became a teacher at the Northeast Normal School for the Mongolian Banners at
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agent Ivan P. Stepanov promised them arms and funding. Thus, in 1928, Merse and his Daur compatriot
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There was no news of him after that for more than half a century. However, his name appeared in
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Uradyn Erden Bulag (2007), "From Empire to Nation: the Demise of Buddhism in Inner Mongolia",
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Early in his political life, Merse established close ties with the independent state of
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Socialist revolutions in Asia: the social history of Mongolia in the 20th century
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The Mongols at China's edge: history and the politics of national unity
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spelling Мэрсээ. It is an abbreviation of the Daur name Mersentei (
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Imperial Japan and national identities in Asia, 1895-1945
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The final "e" is pronounced, not 14: 792:Morozova, Irina Yurievna (2009), 366:Morin Dawa Daur Autonomous Banner 852:Chinese people imprisoned abroad 160: 138: 124:of his Daur clan name Gobulo ( 112: 90: 81: 64: 55: 38:from a noble family native to 1: 778:, Stanford University Press, 296:Secret History of the Mongols 229:(CCP) cooperation during the 417:, 2007-06-11, archived from 253:(福明泰 or 敖民泰) led a group of 810:Uradyn Erden Bulag (2002), 175:Ministry of Foreign Affairs 74:Mongolian Cyrillic alphabet 888: 168:Education and early career 823:, Brill, pp. 19–58, 737:郭道甫 — Guo Daofu (1987) , 151: 129: 103: 814:, Rowman and Littlefield 201:at Verkhneudinsk (today 197:conference organised by 857:Foreign Gulag detainees 227:Chinese Communist Party 872:Soviet rehabilitations 796:, Taylor and Francis, 774:Liu, Xiaoyuan (2006), 554:The Border Cities Star 867:People from Hulunbuir 260:China Eastern Railway 207:Republic of Buryatia 94:). 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Index

Inner Mongolian
Inner Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party
Daur
Hulunbuir
Chinese
pinyin
silent as in English
Mongolian Cyrillic alphabet
Chinese
pinyin
Chinese name
Chinese
pinyin
courtesy name
Guo
Chinese
pinyin
art-name
Chinese
pinyin
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Beijing
Mongolia
Pan-Mongolist
Buryat
Ulan-Ude
Republic of Buryatia
Zhangjiakou
Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party
Mongolia

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