This comparative study of the Naxi and Tai minority groups in Southwestern China examines the implementation and reception of state minority education policy. H

Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804125 Two very different ethnic minority communities—the Naxi of the Lijiang area in northern Yunnan and the Tai (Dai

"A highly personal, honest, funny and well-informed account of China's hyperactive effort to forget its past and reinvent its future."—The New York Times Book

Deborah Fallows has spent a lot of her life learning languages and traveling around the world. But nothing prepared her for the surprises of learning Mandarin,

"As a twenty-two-year-old exchange student at Nanjing University in 1981, John Pomfret was one of the first American students to be admitted to China after the