Language Power and Hierarchy: Multilingual Education in China by Dr Linda Tsung

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Shunning polemicism and fashioning a new agenda for a critically informed yet practically orientated approach, this book explores aspects of multilingual education in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Amongst other issues, it also looks at the challenges associated with bilingual and trilingual education in Xinjiang and Tibet as well as the mediation between religion and culture in multi-ethnic schools, covering these issues from a range of perspectives - Korean, Uyghur, Tibetan, Mongolian and Yi.The PRC promotes itself as a harmonious, stable multicultural mosaic, with over 50 distinct ethnic groups striving for common prosperity. Beneath this rhetoric, there is also inter-ethnic discord, with scenes of ethnic violence in Lhasa and Urumqi over the last few years.China has a complex system of multilingual education - with dual-pathway curricula, bilingual and trilingual instruction, specialised ethnic schools. This education system is a lynchpin in the Communist party state's efforts to keep a lid on simmering tensions and transform a rhetoric of harmony into a critical pluralistic harmonious multiculturalism. This book examines this supposed lynchpin.

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Linda Tsung is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Sydney, Australia.

Table of Contents

List of maps and figuresList of tablesForewordPrefaceAbbreviations1. Introduction2. Multilingualism in China: diversity, hierarchy and power3. Maintaining Mongolian language in Inner Mongolia4. Becoming bilingual and trilingual in Xinjiang5. The debate on Tibetan education in Qinghai6. Harnessing multilingualism: linguistic vitality in Yunnan7. Rethinking multilingualism: the new literacy in Guangxi8. Challenges and barriers for multilingualism and multilingual educationBibliographyIndex

Review

Tsung's book is an important resource, a ground-breaking study that fills a gap in our understanding of multilingualism, language policy, social change and education in China. The country now requires improved multilingual education in order to create a harmonious society, and this book can be a catalyst for change. * Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development *In addition to its data-rich survey of Mongolian, Uighur, Tibetan and other minority language instruction across China, Linda Tsung's brilliant new study casts new light on theoretical and practical issues surrounding multilingualism as a global phenomenon and its impact on social, cultural, social and political life in contemporary China. -- Bonnie S. Mcdougall, Visiting Professor in the Department of Chinese Studies, University of Sydney, AustraliaLinda Tsung's book is a ground-breaking study of the complex issue of multilingualism in contemporary China. Backed by primary sources and years of extensive fieldwork in vast Chinese ethnic minority regions, the author reveals the challenges that all stakeholders must face in negotiating the tension among the diverse forces of globalization, nationalization, language maintenance, social development, among others. It is as theoretically fascinating for linguists as practically valuable for policy makers. -- Hongyin Tao, Professor of Chinese Language and Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles and (2014) President of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, USALinda Tsung does what few linguists do well: she takes us into a mysterious world and shows us what the sociolinguistic reality is like there. This is the first book that has empirically and systematically examined the multilingual norms and multilingual education in China, a nation now standing at the crossroads with confusion, and hesitation. -- Hui Li, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong KongThis book is both an empirically rich account and theoretically significant critique of China's policies and practices of multilingualism and multilingual education Skilfully navigating amongst several different ethnic minority languages and communities in China, Linda Tsung directs us to the opportunities and challenges of multilingualism. The book is of relevance to a wide range of people interested in language policy, education, and social change in China. -- Li Wei, Professor of Applied Linguistics, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

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Explores the complex topic of multilingual education in the People's Republic of China.

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In addition to its data-rich survey of Mongolian, Uighur, Tibetan and other minority language instruction across China, Linda Tsung's brilliant new study casts new light on theoretical and practical issues surrounding multilingualism as a global phenomenon and its impact on social, cultural, social and political life in contemporary China.

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Explores the complex topic of multilingual education in the People's Republic of China.

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Based on field research in minority areas in China as well as in Hong Kong.

Details ISBN1474283446 Short Title LANGUAGE POWER & HIERARCHY Pages 264 Language English ISBN-10 1474283446 ISBN-13 9781474283441 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2016 Publication Date 2016-04-21 Imprint Bloomsbury Academic Subtitle Multilingual Education in China Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Illustrations black & white illustrations Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC UK Release Date 2016-04-21 NZ Release Date 2016-04-21 Author Dr Linda Tsung DEWEY 306.4460951 Audience Undergraduate AU Release Date 2016-04-20 We've got this

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