Constructingminzu
The representation ofminzuandZhonghua Minzuin Chinese elementary textbooks
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2919261 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yiting Chu (0000-0002-5565-5819, University of Washington, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 941-953 |
| Publication date | 2018-11-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0159-6306 • E-ISSN: 1469-3739 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01596306.2017.1310715 |
| OpenAlex | W2605215235 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 34 |
This article examines the role of school textbooks on nation-building in China by examining how the Chinese concepts of minzu and Zhonghua Minzu are constructed in elementary language and social studies textbooks. This study draws on the relationships between ideology and school curriculum as its theoretical framework and adopts a combination of content analysis and critical discourse analysis to critically examine content about minzu in these textbooks. The findings of this study reveal the ambiguous meanings of the word minzu in the examined textbooks and the process through which its semantic ambiguity is contributing to the discursive construction of the Zhonghua Minzu ideology, which is important for China to position itself as a unified, multiethnic country. The use of metaphoric languages and strategic rendering of two key narratives, humiliation and civilization in Chinese history, also help to solidify the Zhonghua Minzu identity
China · Humanities · Ideology · Linguistics · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy
Chinese ethnic minorities and learner identity in non-autonomous schools
Reconfiguring China
The cultural representation of Chinese-speaking groups in US-produced Chinese as a foreign language textbooks
Celebrating culture and neglecting language
Values and identities in Iranian primary school social studies textbooks
Official classification, affirmative action, and self-identification
Nurturing Chinese Nationalists
Transcending counterterrorism discourse
Education and the Politics of Cultural Survival for Uyghur Immigrants in Turkey
Rethinking nationalistic history in China
Ideology and politics in junior-secondary Chinese history textbooks
The culturalisation of politics in contemporary Chinese citizenship education
Confucianism in multicultural China
Critical Thinking About Citizenship in Northern Cyprus Middle School Social Studies Textbooks
Make China great again
Balancing unity and diversity? Shifting state policies and the curricular portrayal of China’s minority nationalities
Portraying “minorities” in Chinese history textbooks of the 1990s and 2000s
A multimodal approach to attitudes towards Tibet in Chinese language textbooks
Discursive construction of social selfhood
Religious façade of 'the Chinese nation' in China's school curriculum
Constructingminzu
Representations of cultural diversity in music education textbooks
Minority Education in China
Ideology and United States History Textbooks
The Politics of Official Knowledge
The Han
Cultural Encounters on China’s Ethnic Frontiers
Negotiating Ethnicities in China and Taiwan
Ideology and Curriculum
Ideological Representations of Taiwan’s History
Metaphors in the discursive construction of patriotism
A Nation-State by Construction
Ethnicization through Schooling
The power of knowledge
Coming to Terms with the Nation
Imagined communities
The Scope and Function of Anthropology
Language and Nationality
Competing Narratives of Racial Unity in Republican China
A State-Led Nationalism
The Canon Debate, Knowledge Construction, and Multicultural Education
Gender and Internal Orientalism in China
Others No More
Representing Nationality in China
Representations of ethnic minorities in China's university media
The construction of cultural values and beliefs in Chinese language textbooks
Constructingminzu
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Mongolian Ethnicity and Linguistic Anxiety in China
| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,75 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |