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Author Zenz, Adrian

Title 'Tibetanness' under threat? : neo-integrationism, minority education and career strategies in Qinghai, P.R. China / by Adrian Zenz
Published Leiden : Global Oriental, 2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Inner Asia Book Series
Inner Asia book series.
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
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
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+
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Cultural pluralism -- China -- Qinghai Sheng
Nationalism -- China -- Qinghai Sheng
Tibetans -- Cultural assimilation -- China -- Qinghai Sheng
Tibetans -- Education (Higher) -- China -- Qinghai Sheng
Tibetans -- China -- Qinghai Sheng
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Cultural pluralism
Nationalism
Tibetans
Tibetans -- Cultural assimilation
China -- Qinghai Sheng
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9004257977
9789004257979