Tjalling Halbertsma
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Tjalling Halbertsma (born 1969) is a lawyer and anthropologist from the Netherlands. From 1996 to 2006 he was based in Mongolia and China. He has published several books and articles about Asia, and has written travel stories about Mongolia in the South China Morning Post, Asian Art and Trouw.
Between 2000 and 2004, he served as adviser to Prime Minister of Mongolia Nambaryn Enkhbayar. He was also the adviser to his successful election campaign to become President of Mongolia in 2005.
He has published extensively on Nestorianism in Inner Mongolia which resulted in a Ph.D. at the Sinological Institute of Leiden University in 2007.
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- Yeti Jagers: Het geheime onderzoek naar de wilde mens van Centraal-Azië, Haarlem: Hollandia-Dominicus, (forthcoming, Summer 2008)
- Sprong naar het Westen: In het spoor van de Chinese ontdekker van Europa, Haarlem: Hollandia-Dominicus, (October 2005)
- Mongolië, Amsterdam: Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen ; Den Haag: Novib ; Brussel: 11.11.11, (2005)
- Steppeland: Berichten uit Mongolië, Haarlem: Hollandia-Dominicus, 2003. (Translated into Chinese and Czech)
- De Verloren Lotuskruisen, Haarlem: Altamira-Becht, 2002
