ABSTRACT
Chinese leaders pursued an ideologically-inspired monistic and integrationist policy toward minority nationalities and gave a higher priority to the ultimate goals of national unity and political centralization than to social diversity and ethnic autonomy. Under the excuse of helping the party's rectification movement, a small number of capitalistic rightwing elements and local ethnic nationalists are launching an attack against the party and socialism. The Cultural Revolution, which threatened the basic premises of China's minority policy altogether, had a devastating impact upon minority education everywhere in China. The impact was particularly severe in Yanbian because the political and ideological struggles among Koreans were extremely ferocious and brutal. The Cultural Revolution stopped or restricted publication of Korean-language materials--books, newspapers, magazines, and reference materials. Textbooks were particularly hard-hit. Korean books in libraries were either destroyed or simply unavailable.
