China's Assimilationist Language Policy

Abstract

List of contributors List of tables and figures Part I: Background and Historical Review 1. China's Language Policy for Indigenous and Minority Education - Gulbahar H. Beckett and Gerard A. Postiglione 2. Historical Review of the PRC's Minority/Indigenous Language Policy and Practice: Nation-State Building and Identity Construction - Minglang Zhou Part II: Empirical Research Studies 3. The Development of Minority Education and the Practice of Bilingual Education in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region - Rong Ma 4. Bilingual Education among the Dongxiangs: Experiment, Practices, and Implications - Yisu Zhou 5. China's Minorities without Written Scripts: The Case of Education Access among the Dongxiang - Jiayi Wang and Gerard A. Postiglione 6. Bilingual Education in China: The Case of Yunnan - Linda Tsung, Ge Wang, and Qunying Zhang 7. Language Hegemony in its Relation to Chinese Marriage Migrants Mothers' Adaptations to and Educational Involvements in Taiwan - Yi-Hsuan Chelsea Kuo 8. The Influence of Cultural and Linguistic Backgrounds on the Social and Academic Adjustment of Students at an Ethnic Minority University in China - Mei Wu, Jerry Tuchscherer, and Forrest W. Parkay 9. Language Issues in Chinese Higher Education: The Case of Korean and Mongol Minority Groups - W. James Jacob and Heejin Park Part III. Theoretical, Ideological, and Legal Issues 10. Chinese-English Bilingual Education in PRC: Implications for Language Education for Autochthonous Ethnic Minorities - Guangwei Hu 11. From Neo-Liberal Ideology to Critical Sustainability Theory for Language Policy Studies in the P.R.C. - Seoanaigh MacPherson 12. Minority Language Rights and Education in China: The Relevance of Human Rights Law and Substantive Equality - Kelley Loper