Affirmative action in China and the U.S.: a dialogue on inequality and minority education

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 reformsbegun in the late 1970s. INDICE: - Introduction; A.Maxwell Hill ; M.Zhou - PART I: DEBATING CHINA'SPOSITIVE POLICIES: HISTORICAL ANTECEDENTS AND CONTEMPORARY PRACTICE - Mandarins, Marxists, and Minorities; W.Connor - Tracking the Historical Development of China's Positive Policies or Preferential Policies for Minority Education: Continuities and Discontinuities; M.Zhou - Minority Policies and Equality in College Admission Examinations in China; T.Wang - Preferential Policies for Ethnic Minorities and Equality in Higher Education in China; X.Teng ; X.Ma - Yunnan's Preferential Policies in Minority Education Since the 1980s: Retrospect and Prospects; Y.Dai ; C.Xu - PART II: BETWEEN STATE EDUCATION AND LOCAL CULTURES - Compulsory Education in the Eastern Tibetan Areas: A Field Survey in Kangding and Machu Counties; Gelek - Tibetan Students Perspectives on/ Neidi/ Schools; G.Postiglione, B.Jiao ; N.Tsering - School Consolidation in Rural Sichuan:Quality Vs. Equality; C.Y.Chan ; S.Harrell - PART III: BETWEEN MARKET COMPETITIVENESS AND CULTURAL/LINGUISTIC IDENTITIES - The Trade Culture of a Hui Community and Local Education: An Anthropological Case Study; M.Xiaoyi - Issues of Minority Education in Xinjiang China; R.Ma - Using Yugur in Local Schools: Reflections on China's Policy for Minority Language and Education; Z.Ba - PART IV: GLOBALIZING THE DISCOURSE ON INEQUALITY AND EDUCATION - Natives and Nation: Assimilation and Indigenous Peoples in China and the U.S.; A.Maxwell Hill - Affirmative Action, Civil Rights and Racial Preferences in the United States: Some General Observations; E.Hu-DeHart - Learning about Equality: Affirmative Action, College Admissions, and the Law of the United States; D.Edlin

• ISBN: 978-0-230-61334-8
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 288
• Fecha Publicación: 18/11/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés