La Mongolia interna crocevia dei rapporti tra Oriente e Occidente

This paper is focused on the relations between Inner Mongolia and the West. The Mongols of Inner Mongolia are one of the 56 minorities of China, and their number paradoxically is larger than those of Outer Mongolia. Through the ages, Mongolia was visited by several missionaries such as Giovanni da Montecorvino and Odorico da Pordenone, and in the following centuries by the jesuits A. Thomas, J. F. Gerbillon and others. At the beginning of the 20th century it was crossed by the Italian journalists Barzini, father and son, who described it in their reports.