Ethnicization through Schooling

The Mainstream Discursive Repertoires of Ethnic Minorities

Bibliographic Data

ID8109747
AuthorsLin Yi (0000-0002-7975-1901, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume192
Pages933-948
Publication date2007-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe China Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0009-4439 • E-ISSN: 1468-2648
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s030574100700210x
OpenAlexW2125702385
LanguageEN
Citations received12

This article looks into the process through which minority cultures and subjects are interpreted and defined by the cultural mainstream as inferior and less valuable for the modernization of China, and in consequent need of transformation, particularly through education. In dichotomizing advanced cultures vis-à-vis backward ones, this process has ethnicized minorities' differences. However, within the process itself are internal contradictions that render any attempt at actual education self-contradictory and ultimately unproductive. Using three sources of data – government policy, academic discourse and ethnographic fieldwork – the article provides corroborative evidence relating to the creation of particular images of minority cultures and subjects by the mainstream Han

China · Ethnic group · Ethnography · Government (linguistics · Linguistics · Mainstream · Modernization theory · Political science · Process (computing · Sociology · Anthropology · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Gender Studies · Law

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