ABSTRACT
This chapter contains the case studies of the education of minorities like Tibetans, Uyghurs, Mongols, Naxis, and Koreans in China. While the themes of these studies are about national integration, ethnic and national identity, and cultural recognition, a common concern in all of these studies is equal opportunity in educational access and achievement. China's centuries of experience with ethnic intergroup processes and how it navigates its global economic integration in an increasingly multicultural world add up to a Chinese ethnicity on the move, and one with potentially far-reaching international implications. The decision of the Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in December of 1978 to launch economic reforms and open China to the outside world continues to have major implications for ethnic minority education. In China's new market economy, competition has become part of the national ethos, making preferential policies for minorities less popular among the majority ethnic group.
