NANTES, FRANCE - A French museum won backing from scholars on Tuesday for its decision to halt an exhibition about Mongol leader Genghis Khan because of a censorship attempt by the Chinese government.
The Chinese authorities demanded that certain words, including"Genghis Khan", "empire" and"Mongol" be removed from the exhibition, and later asked for control over exhibition texts, maps, brochures and communication, the museum said. "The Chinese regime bans historical narratives that don't match its official narratives. And tries to do the same abroad," tweeted Ms Valerie Niquet, an Asia specialist at France's Foundation for Strategic Research.
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