Affirmative Action in China and the U.S.

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Ann Maxwell Hill, Minglang Zhou

      Pages 1-24

3. Debating China’s Positive Policies: Historical Antecedents and Contemporary Practice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25

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   2. Mandarins, Marxists, and Minorities

      • Walker Connor

      Pages 27-46

   3. Tracking the Historical Development of China’s Positive and Preferential Policies for Minority Education: Continuities and Discontinuities

      • Minglang Zhou

      Pages 47-70

   4. Preferential Policies for Minority College Admission in China: Recent Developments, Necessity, and Impact

      • Tiezhi Wang

      Pages 71-82

   5. Preferential Policies for Ethnic Minorities and Educational Equality in Higher Education in China

      • Xing Teng, Xiaoyi Ma

      Pages 83-98

   6. Yunnan’s Preferential Policies in Minority Education since the 1980s: Retrospect and Prospects

      • Yanchun Dai, Changjiang Xu

      Pages 99-116

4. Between State Education and Local Cultures

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117

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   2. Anthropological Field Survey on Basic Education Development among Machu Tibetan Nomads

      • Gelek

      Pages 119-126

   3. Tibetan Student Perspectives on Neidi Schools

      • Gerard A. Postiglione, Ben Jiao, Ngawang Tsering

      Pages 127-142

   4. School Consolidation in Rural Sichuan: Quality versus Equality

      • Christina Y. Chan, Stevan Harrell

      Pages 143-164

5. Between Market Competitiveness and Cultural/Linguistic Identities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165

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   2. The Relationship between the Trade Culture of a Hui Community and State Schooling: A Case Study of the Hui Community in Chaocheng, Shandong Province

      • Xiaoyi Ma

      Pages 167-177

   3. Issues of Minority Education in Xinjiang, China

      • Rong Ma

      Pages 179-198

   4. Using Yugur in Local Schools: Reflections on China’s Policies for Minority Language and Education

      • Zhanlong Ba

      Pages 199-209

6. Globalizing the Discourse on Inequality and Education

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 211-211

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   2. Affirmative Action, Civil Rights, and Racial Preferences in the U.S.: Some General Observations

      • Evelyn Hu-DeHart

      Pages 213-225

   3. Learning about Equality: Affirmative Action, University Admissions, and the Law of the United States

      • Douglas E. Edlin

      Pages 227-246

   4. Native and Nation: Assimilation and the State in China and the U.S.

      • Ann Maxwell Hill

      Pages 247-260

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 reforms begun in the late 1970s.

• education
• higher education
• learning
• quality
• research
• school

"Of great moment to China and the U.S., this dialogue on social inequality and 'affirmative action' in education offers stimulating insights into critical matters, including the imperatives of state-formation and nation-building, majority-minority relations, and the consequences of transnationalism." - Gary Y. Okihiro, Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; Author of Island World: A History of Hawai'i and the United States and Pineapple Culture: A History of the Tropical and Temperate Zones

"This book is a welcome contribution to an underdeveloped field in Chinese studies. It will be attractive to several audiences: those interested in China's national minorities; in Chinese educational policies with respect to minorities, and in cross national comparison of affirmative action in China and the United States. The authors come both from the US and from China. Chapters on specific cases contain rich and vivid detail of the dilemmas involved in providing equal educational opportunities to Chinese minorities." - Thomas P. Bernstein, Professor emeritus, Columbia University; Author of Up to the Mountains and Down to the Villages: The Transfer of Youth from Urban to Rural China

MINGLANG ZHOU is Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at Dickinson College, USA.

ANN MAXWELL HILL whose research focuses mainly on minorities in China, teaches anthropology at Dickinson College, USA.

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