{"id":7352,"date":"2021-01-04T14:17:41","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T22:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/?p=7352"},"modified":"2021-01-04T17:32:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T01:32:28","slug":"2020-mongolia-focus-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/2021\/2020-mongolia-focus-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Mongolia Focus in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Julian Dierkes<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This summer, we will celebrate the tenth anniversary of our blog, though one would have to be very hopeful that this will involve a reunion of our regular authors together in one place.<\/p>\n<p>It will also be the 30th anniversary of my first trip through Mongolia in 1991.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This year will be the 30th anniversary of my very first trip to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Mongolia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Mongolia<\/a>, by train from Beijing to Berlin in August 1991.<br \/>\n???? the visa I travelled on, issued in Tokyo. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6kriaBBQxx\">pic.twitter.com\/6kriaBBQxx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Julian Dierkes (@jdierkes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jdierkes\/status\/1345886354442313729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 4, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve done in some previous years (<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/2020\/2019-blog-readership\/\">2019<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/2019\/blogging-in-2018\/\">2018<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/2017\/2016-audience\/\">2016<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/2016\/blog-in-2015\/\">2015<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/2013\/mongolia-today-this-year\/\">2012<\/a>), here&#8217;s a review of our blog in the past year, 2020.<\/p>\n<h2>Blog Readers<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Over 21,000 people read blog posts in 2020<\/li>\n<li>origin of readers:\n<ul>\n<li>US 24.4%<\/li>\n<li>Mongolia 21.5%<\/li>\n<li>Canada 8.9%<\/li>\n<li>UK 5.3%<\/li>\n<li>Germany 4%<\/li>\n<li>Australia 3.6%<\/li>\n<li>China 2.3%<\/li>\n<li>India 2%<\/li>\n<li>Japan 2%<\/li>\n<li>France 1.6%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>We wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/2020\/\">61 posts this year<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Most read (1000+ readers) posts this year:\n<ul>\n<li>Niels Hegewisch&#8217; and my post on <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/2020\/hu-nazi-symbols-nationalism-context\/\">fascist symbolism and The Hu<\/a> (3,900 pageviews)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/about-mongolia-focus\/about-batdorj-bulgan\/\">Bulgan<\/a>\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/2016\/foreign-languages-mongolians\/\">How popular is Russian in Mongolia 26 Years After the Fall of the Soviet Union?<\/a>\u201d (2016; 1,240+ readers this year)<\/li>\n<li>Bulgan&#8217;s early post on <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/2020\/coronavirus-and-mongolia\/\">corona<\/a> (nearly 1,000 readers)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Since August 2011 a total of 150,000 readers have read 415,000 posts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Julian Dierkes This summer, we will celebrate the tenth anniversary of our blog, though one would have to be very hopeful that this will involve a reunion of our regular authors together in one place. It will also be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/2021\/2020-mongolia-focus-in-review\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6444,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2139,307853,2807],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflection","category-research-on-mongolia","category-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6444"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7352"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7358,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7352\/revisions\/7358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}