Affirmative Action in China and the U.S.

1. Introduction
Ann Maxwell Hill, Minglang Zhou

Part I. Debating China’s Positive Policies: Historical Antecedents and Contemporary Practice

2. Mandarins, Marxists, and Minorities
Walker Connor

3. Tracking the Historical Development of China’s Positive and Preferential Policies for Minority Education: Continuities and Discontinuities
Minglang Zhou

4. Preferential Policies for Minority College Admission in China: Recent Developments, Necessity, and Impact
Tiezhi Wang

5. Preferential Policies for Ethnic Minorities and Educational Equality in Higher Education in China
Xing Teng, Xiaoyi Ma

6. Yunnan’s Preferential Policies in Minority Education since the 1980s: Retrospect and Prospects
Yanchun Dai, Changjiang Xu

Part II. Between State Education and Local Cultures

7. Anthropological Field Survey on Basic Education Development among Machu Tibetan Nomads
Gelek

8. Tibetan Student Perspectives on Neidi Schools
Gerard A. Postiglione, Ben Jiao, Ngawang Tsering

9. School Consolidation in Rural Sichuan: Quality versus Equality
Christina Y. Chan, Stevan Harrell

Part III. Between Market Competitiveness and Cultural/Linguistic Identities

10. The Relationship between the Trade Culture of a Hui Community and State Schooling: A Case Study of the Hui Community in Chaocheng, Shandong Province
Xiaoyi Ma

11. Issues of Minority Education in Xinjiang, China
Rong Ma

12. Using Yugur in Local Schools: Reflections on China’s Policies for Minority Language and Education
Zhanlong Ba

Part IV. Globalizing the Discourse on Inequality and Education

13. Affirmative Action, Civil Rights, and Racial Preferences in the U.S.: Some General Observations
Evelyn Hu-DeHart

14. Learning about Equality: Affirmative Action, University Admissions, and the Law of the United States
Douglas E. Edlin

15. Native and Nation: Assimilation and the State in China and the U.S.
Ann Maxwell Hill

Avainsanat: Earth Sciences, Geology, Organic Chemistry, Educational Policy and Politics, Tourism Management, Sociology of Education, International and Comparative Education