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Local languages are being phased out
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OMETIMES EASY victories are the most revealing. Lots of governments are capable of ruthlessness in the face of terrorism or real threats to national security. When a regime uses its full strength to impose its will on a group offering no resistance, however, that is a clarifying moment. Just such an unequal contest is now unfolding in the forested hills of the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, near the Chinese border with North Korea.
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Yanbian is home to fewer than a million members of an officially recognised Korean ethnic minority, most of them descended from migrants who fled wars and famines on the Korean peninsula in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Chinese scholars study the region as a model of co-existence with the country’s Han majority. Education is part of that story. Ethnic Korean schools in Yanbian have offered bilingual education for more t
Poster issued by China in primary schools in Tibet.
Translation:
“Love the national flag, Sing the national anthem
Mandarin is the working language in schools
Please speak the common language (Mandarin) and write the characters correctly”. Source: Dondrup Dorje’s blog 2016
On Thursday, Tibetan language education rights campaigner Tashi Wangchuk returned home after serving a five-year sentence for allegedly “inciting separatism.” Now, not only is he unlikely to be allowed to resume his advocacy work, but Chinese authorities have just taken additional steps to undermine efforts in China to preserve mother-tongue education.
Last week, Shen Chunyao, head of the rubber-stamp parliament’s Legislative Affairs Commission, announced that local regulations that allow schools to use minority languages in classes are “incompatible with the Chinese Constitution.” This is yet another serious blow to mother-tongue education – not to mention
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