Title Affirmative action in China and the U.S. : a dialogue on inequality and minority education / edited by Minglang Zhou and Ann Maxwell Hill

Edition 1st ed Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 268 pages) : illustrations, maps Series International & development education International & development education. Contents Mandarins, Marxists, and minorities / Walker Connor -- Tracking the historical development of China's positive and preferential policies for minority education: continuities and discontinuities / Minglang Zhou -- Preferential policies for minority college admission in China: recent developments, necessity, and impact / Tiezhi Wang -- Preferential policies for ethnic minorities and the educational equality in higher education in China / Xing Teng and Xiaoyi Ma -- Yunnan's preferential policies in minority education since the 1980s: retrospect and prospects / Yanchun Dai and Changjiang Xu -- Anthropological field survey on basic education development among Machu Tibetan nomads / Gelek -- Tibetan student perspectives on Neidi schools / Gerard A. Postiglione, Ben Jiao, and Ngawang Tsering -- School consolidation in rural Sichuan: quality versus equality / Christina Y. Chan and Stevan Harrell -- The relationship between the trade culture of a Hui community and state schooling: a case study of the Hui community in Chaocheng, Shandong Province / Xiaoyi Ma -- Issues of minority education in Xinjiang, China / Rong Ma -- Using Yugur in local schools: reflections on China's policies for minority language and education / Zhanlong Ba -- Affirmative Action, civil rights, and racial preferences in the U.S.: some general observations / Evelyn Hu-DeHart -- Learning about equality: Affirmative Action, university admissions, and the law of the United States / Douglas E. Edlin -- Native and nation: assimilation and the state in China and the U.S. / Ann Maxwell Hill Summary This volume is the first to comprehensively examine Chinese's affirmative action policies in the critical area of minority education, the most important conduit to employment and economic success in the PRC after the economic reforms begun in the late 1970s Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Affirmative action programs in education -- China Discrimination in education -- China Minorities -- Education -- China EDUCATION -- Educational Policy & Reform -- General. EDUCATION -- Administration -- General. Affirmative action programs in education Discrimination in education Ethnic relations Minorities -- Education Bildung Chancengleichheit Quotierung Bildungswesen Nationale Minderheit Diskriminierung Aufsatzsammlung SUBJECT China -- Ethnic relations Subject China China USA Genre/Form dissertations. Academic theses Academic theses. Thèses et écrits académiques. Form Electronic book Author Zhou, Minglang, 1954- Hill, Ann Maxwell ISBN 9780230100923 0230100929 0230612350 9780230612358 1282664670 9781282664678 9780230613348 0230613349 9786612664670 6612664673

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