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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453463303321

Autore

Zenz Adrian

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands : , : Global Oriental, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

90-04-25797-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (357 p.)

Collana

Inner Asia Book Series ; ; Volume 9

Disciplina

305.895/4105147

Soggetti

Tibetans - China - Qinghai Sheng

Tibetans - Education (Higher) - China - Qinghai Sheng

Tibetans - Cultural assimilation - China - Qinghai Sheng

Nationalism - China - Qinghai Sheng

Cultural pluralism - China - Qinghai Sheng

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Tibetans in Qinghai Province: An Analysis of Recent Developments -- ‘Harmonious’ Solutions to the Nationalities Question -- Beyond Assimilation: The Tibetanisation of Tibetan Education in Qinghai -- The Structural Dynamics of Finding ‘Adequate’ Employment in Marketised Times -- Language, Career and ‘Helping My People’: Students’ Education and Employment Strategies -- Authenticity, Hybridity and ‘In-Betweenness’: ‘Tibetanness’ Between Danger and Doubt -- Between Development and ‘Backwardness’: The Struggle for ‘Modern Tibetanness’ -- Conclusions: Marketisation and the ‘End-of-Tibetanness’? -- Appendix A – Acronyms -- Appendix B – Yearbook Data -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

In 'Tibetanness' Under Threat? , Adrian Zenz pioneers an analysis of significant recent developments in Qinghai's Tibetan education system. Presently, Tibetan students can receive native language education from primary to tertiary levels, while university minority departments offer Tibetan-medium majors from computer science to secretarial studies. However, positive developments are threatened by the dire career



prospects of Tibetan-medium graduates. Tibetans view marketisation as the greatest threat to ethnocultural survival, with their young generation being lured into a Chinese education by superior employment prospects. But Zenz questions the easy equation of Tibetan education as 'unselfish' ethnic preservation versus the Chinese route as egocentric careerism, arguing that the creative educational strategies of Tibetans in the Chinese education system are important for exploring and expressing new forms of 'Tibetanness' in modern China.