ABSTRACT
Young Uyghur students' polarised cultural stereotypes of Han people can shed light on both Uyghur and Han people when rethinking the inter-ethnic relationship. This chapter shows that the dislocated boarding classes should open their doors to the wider local community, in order to facilitate minority students' full immersion in an authentic majority Han environment, and vice versa, to allow for local Han people to gain a holistic understanding of the Uyghurs. The aim of the Xinjiang Class is to train a Uyghur educational elite through the national high school curriculum and university education in inland China. Uyghur students' essays reveal a set of bipolar perceptions. While most prep students invariably convey positive views towards Han people, the more senior students tend to acknowledge the negative sides. Uyghur students had optimised their positive views about Han people as an idealised ethnic group and spared no words to express their admiration.
