Affirmative Action in China and the U.S. A Dialogue on Inequality and Minority Education

by Zhou, Minglang; Hill, Ann Maxwell

• ISBN13: 9780230612358
• ISBN10: 0230612350
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-09-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This volume is the first to comprehensively examine Chinese's affirmative action policies in the critical area of minority education, the most important conduit to employment and economic success in the PRC after the economic reforms begun in the late 1970s.

Author Biography

Minglang Zhou is Associate Professor and Chair of East Asian Studies at Dickinson College. His research focuses on the sociology of language and ethnic relations in China. His seminal publications include Multilingualism in China: The Politics of Writing Reforms for Minority Languages 1949–2002 (2003), Language olicy in the People’s Republic of China: Theory and Practice since 1949 (2004), and Journal of Asian Pacific Communication: Special Issue on Language Planning and Varieties of Modern Standard Chinese (2006).

Ann Maxwell Hill is Professor of Anthropology at Dickinson College. Her earlier fieldwork was conducted in Northern Thailand (Merchants and Migrants:  Ethnicity and Trade Among Yunnanese Chinese in Southeast Asia, 1998). For the past decade, she had done fieldwork in Nuosu communities in southwest China.  

Table of Contents

Introduction

Debating China’s Positive Policies: Historical Antecedents and Contemporary Practice

Mandarins, Marxists, and Minorities

Tracking the Historical Development of China’s Positive Policies or Preferential Policies for Minority Education: Continuities and Discontinuities

Minority Policies and Equality in College Admission Examinations in China

Preferential Policies for Ethnic Minorities and Equality in Higher Education in China

Yunnan’s Preferential Policies in Minority Education Since the 1980s: Retrospect and Prospects –

Between State Education and Local Cultures

Compulsory Education in the Eastern Tibetan Areas: A Field Survey in

Tibetan Students Perspectives on/ Neidi/ Schools

School Consolidation in Rural Sichuan: Quality Vs. Equality

Between Market Competitiveness and Cultural/Linguistic Identities

The Trade Culture of a Hui Community and Local Education: An Anthropological Case Study

Issues of Minority Education in Xinjiang China

Using Yugur in Local Schools: Reflections on China’s Policy for Minority Language and Education

Globalizing the Discourse on Inequality and Education

Natives and Nation: Assimilation and Indigenous Peoples in China and the U.S.

Affirmative Action, Civil Rights and Racial Preferences in the United States: Some General Observations

Learning about Equality: Affirmative Action, College Admissions, and the Law of the United States –

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