Lessons in Being Chinese: Minority Education and Ethnic Identity in Southwest China

by Mette Halskov Hansen

Book Overview

Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804125

Two very different ethnic minority communities--the Naxi of the Lijiang area in northern Yunnan and the Tai (Dai) of Sipsong Panna (Xishuangbanna), along Yunnan's border with Burma and Laos--are featured in this comparative study of the implementation and reception of state minority education policy in the People's Republic of China. Based on field research and historical sources, Lessons...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295977884
• ISBN13: 9780295977881
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher