Mongolia &amp; East Asia

«中国布里亚特人的体质特征» [Physical characteristics of Chinese Buryats] — anthropometry of Chinese Buryats (人类学学报 [Anthropological Journal], 2011)

An anthropometric study of the physical characteristics of Chinese Buryats — text recognised and verified.

『環北太平洋の言語』[Languages of the Circum-Pacific] series — tables of contents (JANoLS)

Tables of contents for a series of publications containing field texts in Yamakoshi Shenehen-Buryat (2004–2006).

JournalOpen access

MonographCatalogue record

A. Oyun-tungalag, «Монгол улсын буриадууд» [Buryaty Mongolii; The Buryats of Mongolia]

Key Mongolian-language historiography of the Buryats of Mongolia; visible in citations and reviews, but clear official OA access to the full text is not confirmed — included as a bibliographic reference (catalogue-only).

Absence and Loss in Mongolia (UCL chapter)

An open chapter on Buryat memory in Mongolia, including socialist-era repression and the suppression of identity — a valuable source on the diaspora and the repressions of the 1930s.

Acta Mongolica

A fully open Mongolian scientific journal (CC BY 4.0) featuring publications on Buryat historiography and archival materials — the best live OA source for tracking the Mongolian side of Buryat research.

JournalOpen access

Ao Chahalun — “Regional Characteristics of Barga Buryat Folklore” (sinoss.net)

A full-text Chinese article on the regional characteristics of Bargu-Buryat folklore.

Baayar-Khimlek — doctoral dissertation on the acoustics of the Buryat language and dialects (2014)

A unique Chinese doctoral dissertation on the acoustic phonetics of the Buryat language and its dialects (Russia/Mongolia/China).

MonographOpen access

Bökh wrestling among the Shenehen Buryats (fcipub.org)

An article on Bökh wrestling among the Shenehen Buryats as intangible cultural heritage.

Chen Ganglong — Buryat-Mongol origin myth (China Folklore Network)

A distinctive Chinese source on Buryat-Mongol epic and mythology by folklorist Chen Ganglong.

CNKI — «Hulunbuir Buryat-Mongol cultural change»

An article regarding the cultural change of the Hulunbuir Buryat-Mongols in the Chinese academic database CNKI.

ArticlePaid access

Dong Xiaorong — on «Abai Geser» (西藏研究 [Tibet Studies])

An article on shamanism and Buddhism in the Buryat epic Abai Geser, published in a Chinese Tibetology journal.

Hulunbuir University Journal (portal at cbpt.cnki.net)

The only identified channel to the academic niche of Shenehen Buryats via the Hulunbuir Institute journal, provided access is restored.

JournalPaid access

HUSCAP — «Personal possessive particles in Shenehen-Buryat» (2011)

A grammatical article on the possessive particles of the Shenehen-Buryat language, Hokkaido University repository.

HUSCAP — Shenehen-Buryat text «the liar...» (2025)

A recent (2025) publication of a field recording of a Shenehen-Buryat text — the most recent academic source found for the language.

Scholarly gatewayOpen access

Japan Association for Mongolian Studies (JAMS)

The Japan Association for Mongolian Studies — a general hub, not directly Buryat-specific.

Japan Center for Asian Historical Records (JACAR)

A public digital archive of Japanese documents concerning the modern history of Japan and Asia (archives of the National Archives, MOFA, NIDS) — a source for Japanese projects in Mongolia/Manchuria, Pan-Mongol initiatives, and Buryat emigrants (variants: ブリヤート, ブリアート).

ArchiveOpen access

Japan's involvement in the promotion of Mongol nationalism between 1918-1939 (Ritsumeikan)

An article on Japan's attempts to utilise Mongolian nationalism through Buddhism between 1918–1939, directly addressing Buryat-Mongols — a significant find regarding the topic of «Buryats in Japanese plans of the 1930s».

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Japanese Association for Northern Languages (JANoLS)

The Japanese Association for Northern Languages — an institutional node for Shenehen-Buryat linguistics.

Kuribayashi Hitoshi — «ブリヤート語» [Buryat language] (essay on the Buryat language, PDF)

A 10-page essay on the Buryat language: phonology, morphology, and dialects.

Scholarly gatewayOpen access

Kuribayashi Hitoshi — bibliography (Tohoku, CNEAS)

A personal archive of dozens of PDFs by the leading Japanese Buryatologist Kuribayashi Hitoshi.

LingDyTalk — application with field Buryat audio

A book and audio available via ISBN featuring Buryat folktales (2020–2022) in an application format containing field recordings.

AppOpen access

Little Known Episodes from Relations between Buryats and Japanese (Nichibunken)

A Japanese-language article on the prolonged contacts between Buryats and Japanese from the beginning of the 20th century — a valuable source for Japanese historiography on the subject, despite the language barrier.

Menghe Wuliji — “Nomadic Culture of the Barga Buryats” (sinoss.net)

A full-text Chinese article from Inner Mongolia University regarding the nomadic culture of the Bargu-Buryats — a unique layer of information not overlapping with the Russian/English-language field.