Timothy Grose
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9789888528097
- eISBN:
- 9789882204805
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888528097.001.0001
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Policy and Politics
This book describes and theorizes the experiences of Uyghur graduates of the “Xinjiang Class” national boarding school program. These experiences reveal how young, educated Uyghurs strategically and ...
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This book describes and theorizes the experiences of Uyghur graduates of the “Xinjiang Class” national boarding school program. These experiences reveal how young, educated Uyghurs strategically and selectively embrace elements of the corporate Chinese “Zhonghua minzu” identity in order to stretch the boundaries of a collective Uyghur identity. More specifically, Xinjiang Class students establish cross-regional bonds with Uyghur classmates and non-Xinjiang Class Uyghurs in inner China (neidi) and transnational bonds based on shared faith with foreign Muslims living in Chinese cities. These networks activate and perpetuate a transregional and often transnational ethno-national identity that is regularly communicated through Islamic practice.Less
This book describes and theorizes the experiences of Uyghur graduates of the “Xinjiang Class” national boarding school program. These experiences reveal how young, educated Uyghurs strategically and selectively embrace elements of the corporate Chinese “Zhonghua minzu” identity in order to stretch the boundaries of a collective Uyghur identity. More specifically, Xinjiang Class students establish cross-regional bonds with Uyghur classmates and non-Xinjiang Class Uyghurs in inner China (neidi) and transnational bonds based on shared faith with foreign Muslims living in Chinese cities. These networks activate and perpetuate a transregional and often transnational ethno-national identity that is regularly communicated through Islamic practice.
Timothy Grose
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9789888528097
- eISBN:
- 9789882204805
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888528097.003.0002
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Policy and Politics
Chapter One introduces the major institutional hallmarks of the Xinjiang Class. It carefully interrogates the CCP’s current objectives for maintaining boarding schools for Uyghur students. It draws ...
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Chapter One introduces the major institutional hallmarks of the Xinjiang Class. It carefully interrogates the CCP’s current objectives for maintaining boarding schools for Uyghur students. It draws on documents drafted by China’s Ministry of Education, Xinjiang’s Education Department, and individual schools hosting a Xinjiang Class as well as individual testimony to paint a vivid picture of the daily life of Xinjiang Class students. The chapter contends that the primary objective of the Xinjiang Class is to create, from scratch, a cohort of Uyghurs who are loyal to the CCPLess
Chapter One introduces the major institutional hallmarks of the Xinjiang Class. It carefully interrogates the CCP’s current objectives for maintaining boarding schools for Uyghur students. It draws on documents drafted by China’s Ministry of Education, Xinjiang’s Education Department, and individual schools hosting a Xinjiang Class as well as individual testimony to paint a vivid picture of the daily life of Xinjiang Class students. The chapter contends that the primary objective of the Xinjiang Class is to create, from scratch, a cohort of Uyghurs who are loyal to the CCP
