ABSTRACT
Raising awareness about travel writing in Mongolia can encourage travel writing specialists to complicate their assumptions about Eurocentric perspectives on travel. Mongolia challenges theories about travel writing because it is a difficult place to define culturally and politically and because it does not share a history of European colonization. European and North American travelers have emphasized or muted the historical complexity of Mongolian colonialism for their own rhetorical purposes. For researchers in Mongolian Studies, travel writing contributes an ideal source for imaginative geographies that persist into the twenty-first century.
