Lessons in Being Chinese : Minority Education and Ethnic Identity in Southwest China
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804125Two very different ethnic minority communities—the Naxi of the Lijiang area in northern Yunnan and the Tai (Dai) of Sipsong Panna (Xishuangbanna), along Yunnan's border with Burma and Laos—are featured in this comparative study of the implementation and...
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University of Washington Press
1999
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