Download or read book State Schooling and Ethnic Identity written by Zhiyong Zhu and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: State Schooling and Ethnic Identity examines the influence of state schooling on Tibetan students' ethnic identity. Zhiyong Zhu has developed a case study of Changzhou Tibetan Middle School after a preferential educational policy was put in place by the Chinese government in the early 1980s. By examining and analyzing student diaries, Zhu has developed a theoretical model for the construction of ethnic identity.