Email RIS file
Bookmark
Report an Issue

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

Author
Zenz, Adrian
Published
Leiden : Global Oriental, 2013.
Physical Description
pages ; cm.
Access Online

Availability

I Want It
I Want It

Finding items...

Series
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- Education, Market and Language -- Sinicisation, Hybridity and the `End-of-Tibetanness' -- Structure, Agency and Strategy in Minority Education -- Tibet'---Tibetan'---`Tibetanness' -- Gauging Factions and Groupings Within the `Educated Tibetan Community' -- 2.Tibetans in Qinghai Province: An Analysis of Recent Developments -- Contextualising the Fieldwork Setting -- Qinghai's Ethnic Landscape -- Economic Developments, Market Reforms and the Employment Market -- Qinghai's Tibetan Education Situation -- 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 Present -- Wenming, Suzhi, Kexue: Cultural Control and Strategic Concealment -- Contradictory `Harmony': Gauging the Core Tensions within the State's Minority Work Approach -- 4.Beyond Assimilation: The Tibetanisation of Tibetan Education in Qinghai -- Making History: The Tibetanisation of Tibetan Education in Qinghai -- From Tibetanisation to Re-Tibetanisation -- Tibetanisation in the Midst of Adversity; An Analysis of Enabling Factors -- The 2010 `Qinghai gangyao' Educational Reform Initiative: Threat to Tibetan Education? -- QUN Campus Dynamics: Tibetan Worlds' in the Midst of Integrationism -- Conclusions: Sinicisation Through Minority Education -- 5.The Structural Dynamics of Finding `Adequate' Employment in Marketised Times -- Graduate Employment Statistics and Trends -- Examining Minority Graduate Employment -- Obligations, 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 -- "Facing Reality": Pragmatist Strategies and Chinese-Medium Careers -- Creative Approaches to the Dilemma: Track Mixing and Tibetan+ -- The Ethnically-Conscious Alternative: Venturing into Tibetan+ -- Career and Tibetanness' Between Isolation and Engagement -- 7.Authenticity, Hybridity and `In-Betweenness': `Tibetanness' Between Danger and Doubt -- Hybridity and Ethnic Authenticity -- `Tibetanness', Purity and Mixing -- Authenticity and Linguistic Purity. The Case of Dawa -- Hybridity, Ambiguity and Confusion -- To Regret or To Not Regret? Dealing with `In-Betweenness' -- Conclusion: Digital `Tibetanness', Instrumental-Primordialism, and the Battle Against Hybridity -- 8.Between Development and `Backwardness': The Struggle for `Modern Tibetanness' -- Tibetan Discourses of Tibetan Modernity -- Contrasting Perspectives on Tibetan Development -- The Function and Significance of Discourses of Tibetan `Backwardness' -- Religion as Science: The Significance of Buddhism-Science Discourses -- `Modem Tibetanness': Concluding Thoughts -- 9.Conclusions: Marketisation and the `End-of-Tibetanness'? -- Education, Career, and Minority School Success -- Marketisation versus Protectionism: How Can `Tibetanness' Survive? -- Ethnicity versus Market: The Possibility of Ethnic Entrepreneurship -- Hybridisation: The Beginning of the `End-of-Tibetanness'? -- The Complex Way Ahead.
Subject(s)
ISBN
9789004257962 (hardback : alk. paper)
9789004257979 (electronic book)
Note
AVAILABLE ONLINE TO AUTHORIZED PSU USERS.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
View MARC record | catkey: 11546196