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

by Zhou, Minglang; Hill, Ann Maxwell

• ISBN13: 9780230613348
• ISBN10: 0230613349
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-09-15
• 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 People's Republic of China after the economic reforms begun in the late 1970s.

Author Biography

Ann Maxwell Hill is Professor of Anthropolgy at Dickinson College.

Minglang Zhou is Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at Dickinson College.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	p. vii
Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Series Editor's Introduction	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Debating China's Positive Policies: Historical Antecedents and Contemporary Practice
Mandarins, Marxists, and Minorities	p. 27
Tracking the Historical Development of China's Positive and Preferential Policies for Minority Education: Continuities and Discontinuities	p. 47
Preferential Policies for Minority College Admission in China: Recent Developments, Necessity, and Impact	p. 71
Preferential Policies for Ethnic Minorities and Educational Equality in Higher Education in China	p. 83
Yunnan's Preferential Policies in Minority Education since the 1980s: Retrospect and Prospects	p. 99
Between State Education and Local Cultures
Anthropological Field Survey on Basic Education Development among Machu Tibetan Nomads	p. 119
Tibetan Student Perspectives on Neidi Schools	p. 127
School Consolidation in Rural Sichuan: Quality versus Equality	p. 143
Between Market Competitiveness and Cultural/Linguistic Identities
The Relationship between the Trade Culture of a Hui Community and State Schooling: A Case Study of the Hui Community in Chaocheng, Shandong Province	p. 167
Issues of Minority Education in Xinjiang, China	p. 179
Using Yugur in Local Schools: Reflections on China's Policies for Minority Language and Education	p. 199
Globalizing the Discourse on Inequality and Education
Affirmative Action, Civil Rights, and Racial Preferences in the U.S.: Some General Observations	p. 213
Learning about Equality: Affirmative Action, University Admissions, and the Law of the United States	p. 227
Native and Nation: Assimilation and the State in China and the U.S.	p. 247
List of Contributors	p. 261
Index	p. 265
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