Based on previously unopened Mongolian archives, "Young Mongols and Vigilantes" is a vivid narrative of the underground world of pan-Mongolist agitation in Inner Mongolia that offers new insight into the social origins and international connections of Mongol nationalism in China.

Christopher P. Atwood currently teaches Mongolian studies at Indiana University's Central Eurasian Studies Department. A graduate of Indiana University, he has traveled widely in Inner Mongolia and independent Mongolia and published numerous articles on Inner Mongolia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.