Bertrand Guillet, Director of the Château des ducs de Bretagne (Musée d’histoire de Nantes) announced a few months ago that it had been forced to postpone its exhibition 'Son of the sky and steppes : Genghis Khan and the birth of an empire' to October 2024 due to last summer’s hardened stance by the Chinese government towards its Mongolian minority. Continuing its efforts to suppress Mongolia's history as part of its campaign to amend Mongolia's history and eradicate terms like "Gengis Khan", "empire", "Mongolian" and "Yuan", the CCP had objected to the use of these terms in the texts, maps, the catalogue, marketing and communication of the exhibition devoted to the history of Gengis Khan and the Mongolian Empire, proposed to be held by the Musée d’histoire de Nantes in partnership with the Inner Mongolia Museum in Hohhot, China. This exhibition was supposed to open on 17 October 2020, had already been postponed due to the international context of the pandemic.
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