WINNER–2020 Central Eurasian Studies Society's CESS Book Award This is the first book-
length study of graduates from the Xinjiang Class, a program that funds senior high school …

By way of introduction, this lead essay provides an overview of China's ethnic minority
boarding school system, exploring its background, aims and history, while introducing the …

Unruly Speech explores how Uyghurs in China and in the diaspora transgress sociopolitical
limits with" unruly" communication practices in a quest for change. Drawing on research in …

Considered a major ethnic policy aimed at providing “intellectual aid for Tibet”, the interior
Tibet schools have recruited more than 100,000 primary school graduates to undertake …

Since its implementation in 2000, the inland Xinjiang senior secondary school class policy
(Xinjiangban policy) has promoted and funded middle-school students, mostly ethnic …

Typically understood through a universal-statist framework, modern schooling in
contemporary China often contributes to the disenchantment of ethnic students. Based on …

ABSTRACT The Xinjiang Interior Class is one of the most influential but controversial ethnic
minority-focused educational policies in contemporary China. The policy recruits ethnic …

This study examines ethnic minority individuals' multilingual lived experience and their
identity construction, under the context of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (IMAR) of …

In the spring of 1959, thousands of Tibetans fled China, crossing the border into Nepal. They
were following the Dalai Lama into exile after years of living under an oppressive regime in …

This study investigates the first films made by a female director, Kangdrun (T: Gangs sgron,
གངས་ ྒྲསྒྲོན་, Gangzhen, 岗珍, b. 1995) belonging to the Post-2000s Inland Tibet Class …