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Cultural Exclusion in China

State Education, Social Mobility and Cultural Difference

Bibliographic Data

ID8095513
AuthorsYi Lin (0000-0002-0697-4581, corresponding author), Lin Yi (0000-0002-7975-1901)
Year2008
Pages176
Publication date2008-06-20
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueCultural exclusion in China (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780203895276
OpenAlexW4245829692
Open LibraryOL24058717M
ISBN9780203895276
LanguageEN
Citations received24

Ethnic minorities form a very substantial proportion of the population of China, with over 100 million people in 55 formally designated minority groups inhabiting over 60% of the country’s land area. Poverty and economic inequality of minority groups are widely-recognised problems. However, as this book, based on extensive original research, shows, underlying economic inequality are educational inequality and cultural exclusion, which in turn lead to problems of social mobility and thereby to poverty. The book examines in particular Tibetan, Muslim Hui, Salar and Bonan people. It discusses the policy and practice of education for ethnic minorities, the prevailing chauvinistic Chinese national culture, from which minorities feel excluded, and the attitudes of both majority Han Chinese towards minorities, and of minorities towards their position of cultural exclusion. Besides exploring the forms of cultural exclusion experienced by ethnic minorities, it considers what might be done to promote inclusion, proposing a rethinking of the project of nation building and modernisation of state and minority rights in order to achieve the goal of including the minority population of distinctive cultures into wider society

Archaeology · China · Geography · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · Education · Educational equalization · Ethnicity · Minorities · Race discrimination · Social conditions

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Citations per year1,5
Citation span2010 - 2025 (16)
Citation velocityrecent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 24

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