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Language, education and Uyghur identity in urban Xinjiang / edited by Joanne Smith Finley and Xiaowei Zang.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Smith Finley, Joanne, Zang, Xiaowei
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2015.
Series:Routledge studies on ethnicity in Asia ; 2.
Subjects:
Uighur (Turkic people) > Ethnic identity.
Uighur (Turkic people) > Education > China > Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.
Uighur language > China > Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.
Language policy > China > Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.
Minority youth > China > Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu > Social conditions.
Group identity > China > Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Language, education and Uyghur identity : an introductory essay / Joanne Smith Finley and Xiaowei Zang
  • 2. Major determinants of Uyghur ethnic consciousness in Ür©ơmchi / Xiaowei Zang
  • 3. Between minkaohan and minkaomin : discourses on 'assimilation' amongst bilingual urban Uyghurs / David Tobin
  • 4. The construction of Uyghur urban youth identity through language use / Ablimit Baki Elterish
  • 5. Second/third language learning and Uyghur identity : language in education for Uyghurs in urban Xinjiang / Mamtimyn Sunuodula
  • 6. Representations of Uyghurs in Chinese history textbooks / Janina Feyel
  • 7. Young Uyghurs' perceptions of Han Chinese : from Xinjiang in inland, from state to individual / Yangbin Chen
  • 8. Escaping 'enseparability' : how Uyghur graduates of the 'Xinjiang Class' contest membership in the Zhonghua minzu / Timothy Grose
  • 9. Education, religion and identity among Uyghur hostesses in Ür©ơmchi / Joanne Smith Finley
  • 10. Conclusion : the importance of being Uyghur / Gardner Bovingdon.

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