| Description |
1 online resource. |
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Shona language |
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text file |
| Series |
Inner Asia Book Series
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Inner Asia book series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
'Tibetanness' Under Threat?; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Transliteration; List of Figures; 1. Introduction; Education, Market and Language; Structure, Agency and Strategy in Minority Education; 2. Tibetans in Qinghai Province: An Analysis of Recent Developments; Contextualising the Fieldwork Setting; Economic Developments, Market Reforms and the Employment Market; 3.'Harmonious' Solutions to the Nationalities Question; Introduction; Minority Rights Part I: Legal Frameworks and Political Trends; Chinese for Jobs: The Rising Force of Pragmatism. |
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Minority Rights Part II: Han Centre-Periphery Models Past and PresentWenming, Suzhi, Kexue: Cultural Control and Strategic Concealment; 4. Beyond Assimilation: The Tibetanisation of Tibetan Education in Qinghai; Making History: The Tibetanisation of Tibetan Educationin Qinghai; From Tibetanisation to Re-Tibetanisation; Tibetanisation in the Midst of Adversity: An Analysis of Enabling Factors; Conclusions: Sinicisation Through Minority Education?; 5. The Structural Dynamics of Finding 'Adequate' Employment in Marketised Times; Graduate Employment Statistics and Trends. |
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Examining Minority Graduate EmploymentObligations, Anxieties, Preferences: The Significance of Formal Government Employment; Corruption and Language in Government Recruitment Processes; Conclusions: Career, Language and Ethnicity; 6. Language, Career and 'Helping my People': Students' Education and Employment Strategies; Learning "My Mother Tongue": Education, Ethnicity and Language-Culture; Creative Approaches to the Dilemma: Track Mixing and Tibetan+; The Ethnically-Concious Alternative: Venturing into Tibetan+ |
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7. Authenticity, Hybridity and 'In-Betweenness': 'Tibetanness' Between Danger and DoubtHybridity and Ethnic Authenticity; Authenticity and Linguistic Purity: The Case of Dawa; Hybridity, Ambiguity and Confusion; 8. Between Development and 'Backwardness': The Struggle for 'Modern Tibetanness'; Tibetan Discourses of Tibetan Modernity; Contrasting Perspectives on Tibetan Development; Religion as Science: The Significance of Buddhism-Science Discourses; 9. Conclusions: Marketisation and the 'End-of-Tibetanness'?; Ethnicity versus Market: The Possibility of Ethnic Entrepreneurship. |
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The Complex Way AheadBibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
In 'Tibetanness' Under Threat?, Adrian Zenz pioneers an analysis of remarkable recent developments in Qinghai's Tibetan education system. While marketisation processes threaten these positive developments, educational strategies of Tibetans in the Chinese system explore new ways of being 'Tibetan' in China. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cultural pluralism -- China -- Qinghai Sheng.
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Cultural pluralism. |
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China -- Qinghai Sheng. |
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Nationalism -- China -- Qinghai Sheng.
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Nationalism. |
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Tibetans -- Cultural assimilation -- China -- Qinghai Sheng.
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Tibetans -- Cultural assimilation. |
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Tibetans. |
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Tibetans -- Education (Higher) -- China -- Qinghai Sheng.
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Education, Higher. |
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Tibetans -- China -- Qinghai Sheng.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Zenz, Adrian. 'Tibetanness' Under Threat? : Neo-Integrationism, Minority Education and Career Strategies in Qinghai, P.R. China. Leiden : BRILL, ©2013 9789004257962 |
| ISBN |
9004257977 (electronic book) |
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9789004257979 (electronic book) |
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9004257969 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9789004257962 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
99955671327 |
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