ABSTRACT

This volume focuses on policies and practices in the education of China's national minorities with the purpose of assessing the goals and impact of state sponsored education for China's non-Han people's. The essays in the four sections of this book examine cultural challenges to state schooling, the extent of educational provision in minority areas, the perspectives of Tibetan and Uyghur minorities toward state education, along with providing case studies of four national minorities. The book makes the point that despite the authoritarian character of China's state schooling, diversity reigns.

chapter 1|17 pages

Introduction

State Schooling and Ethnicity in China

part I|110 pages

Cultural Challenges to State Schooling: Religion and Language

chapter 4|36 pages

Writing Cultural Boundaries

National Minority Language Policy, Literacy Planning, and Bilingual Education

part 2|68 pages

Educational Disparities: Literacy Levels and Access to Higher Education

chapter 5|39 pages

National Minority Education in China

A Nationwide Survey Across Counties

chapter 6|26 pages

Expanding Access to Higher Education for China's National Minorities

Policies of Preferential Admissions

chapter III|174 pages

Case Studies of Ethnic Minority Schooling

The Yi, Tai, Tibetan and Monguor

chapter 7|29 pages

Folk Theories of Success

Where Han Aren't Always the Best 1

chapter 8|38 pages

Teaching Backwardness or Equality

Chinese State Education Among the Tai in Sipsong Panna 1