‘Tibetanness’ Under Threat?

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Copyright

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Contents

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Acknowledgements

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Notes on Transliteration

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List of Figures

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1. Introduction

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Education, Market and Language

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Sinicisation, Hybridity and the ‘End-of-Tibetanness’

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Structure, Agency and Strategy in Minority Education

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‘Tibet’—‘Tibetan’—‘Tibetanness’

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Gauging Factions and Groupings Within the ‘Educated Tibetan Community’

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2. Tibetans in Qinghai Province: An Analysis of Recent Developments

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Contextualising the Fieldwork Setting

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Qinghai’s Ethnic Landscape

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Economic Developments, Market Reforms and the Employment Market

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Qinghai’s Tibetan Education Situation

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3. ‘Harmonious’ Solutions to the Nationalities Question

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Introduction

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Minority Rights Part I: Legal Frameworks and Political Trends

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Chinese for Jobs: The Rising Force of Pragmatism

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Minority Rights Part II: Han Centre-Periphery Models Past and Present

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Wenming, Suzhi, Kexue: Cultural Control and Strategic Concealment

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Contradictory ‘Harmony’: Gauging the Core Tensions within the State’s Minority Work Approach

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4. Beyond Assimilation: The Tibetanisation of Tibetan Education in Qinghai

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Making History: The Tibetanisation of Tibetan Educationin Qinghai

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From Tibetanisation to Re-Tibetanisation

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Tibetanisation in the Midst of Adversity: An Analysis of Enabling Factors

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The 2010 ‘Qinghai gangyao’ Educational Reform Initiative: Threat to Tibetan Education?

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QUN Campus Dynamics: ‘Tibetan Worlds’ in the Midst of Integrationism

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Conclusions: Sinicisation Through Minority Education?

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5. The Structural Dynamics of Finding ‘Adequate’ Employment in Marketised Times

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Graduate Employment Statistics and Trends

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Examining Minority Graduate Employment

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Obligations, Anxieties, Preferences: The Significance of Formal Government Employment

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Corruption and Language in Government Recruitment Processes

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Conclusions: Career, Language and Ethnicity

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6. Language, Career and ‘Helping my People’: Students’ Education and Employment Strategies

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Learning “My Mother Tongue”: Education, Ethnicity and Language-Culture

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“Facing Reality”: Pragmatist Strategies and Chinese-Medium Careers

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Creative Approaches to the Dilemma: Track Mixing and Tibetan+

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The Ethnically-Concious Alternative: Venturing into Tibetan+

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Career and ‘Tibetanness’ Between Isolation and Engagement

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7. Authenticity, Hybridity and ‘In-Betweenness’: ‘Tibetanness’ Between Danger and Doubt

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Hybridity and Ethnic Authenticity

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‘Tibetanness’, Purity and Mixing

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Authenticity and Linguistic Purity: The Case of Dawa

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Hybridity, Ambiguity and Confusion

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To Regret or To Not Regret? Dealing with ‘In-Betweenness’

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Conclusion: Digital ‘Tibetanness’, Instrumental-Primordialism, and the Battle Against Hybridity

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8. Between Development and ‘Backwardness’: The Struggle for ‘Modern Tibetanness’

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Tibetan Discourses of Tibetan Modernity

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Contrasting Perspectives on Tibetan Development

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The Function and Significance of Discourses of Tibetan ‘Backwardness’

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Religion as Science: The Significance of Buddhism-Science Discourses

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‘Modern Tibetanness’: Concluding Thoughts

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9. Conclusions: Marketisation and the ‘End-of-Tibetanness’?

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Marketisation versus Protectionism: How Can ‘Tibetanness’ Survive?

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Ethnicity versus Market: The Possibility of Ethnic Entrepreneurship

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Hybridisation: The Beginning of the ‘End-of-Tibetanness’?

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The Complex Way Ahead

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Appendix A – Acronyms

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Appendix B – Yearbook Data

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Bibliography

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Index

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