In this article, the author tries to analyze the incongruity between ethnicity and its theorization in China and explore the tension between the mainstream discourse of homogenization-cure-nationalism and the minority...In this article, the author tries to analyze the incongruity between ethnicity and its theorization in China and explore the tension between the mainstream discourse of homogenization-cure-nationalism and the minority linguisticcultural ＂heteroglossia, ＂ as is typified by the conceptual and practical difficulty in translating Minzu[ I ] as well as the political revival and pragmatic use of traditional culture. Drawing on Walker Connor＇s study of the national question in Marxist-Leninist theory and strategy, the author argues that the old formula of ＂national in form, socialist in content,＂ as has been applied in China, lacks a Thirdness-based ＂indexical embodiment＂ dimension, a defect that creates a situation ＂national in form, ethnic in content,＂ and leads to political ambiguities and identity conflicts.展开更多
Anxieties about Chinese-Mongolian-English trilingual program in Inner Mongolia reflect three linguistic ideologies,that is,the instrumental and the essentialist among Mongolian elites and the assimilationist among Han...Anxieties about Chinese-Mongolian-English trilingual program in Inner Mongolia reflect three linguistic ideologies,that is,the instrumental and the essentialist among Mongolian elites and the assimilationist among Han elites.Mongolian ethnicity is on trial in front of an upsurge of Chinese nationalism.Both pro and con trilingual education elites agree that the Mongolian language should be maintained,but they differ over the ways it is taught.In China,the nationwide drive to go back to“basics”has also encouraged national minorities to keep their traditional culture alive.Such surviving efforts demand a great measure of artful negotiating skills,necessary compromise,and strategic thinking.The trilingual education program in Inner Mongolia serves as a platform on which contending linguistic ideologies confront each other.展开更多
文摘In this article, the author tries to analyze the incongruity between ethnicity and its theorization in China and explore the tension between the mainstream discourse of homogenization-cure-nationalism and the minority linguisticcultural ＂heteroglossia, ＂ as is typified by the conceptual and practical difficulty in translating Minzu[ I ] as well as the political revival and pragmatic use of traditional culture. Drawing on Walker Connor＇s study of the national question in Marxist-Leninist theory and strategy, the author argues that the old formula of ＂national in form, socialist in content,＂ as has been applied in China, lacks a Thirdness-based ＂indexical embodiment＂ dimension, a defect that creates a situation ＂national in form, ethnic in content,＂ and leads to political ambiguities and identity conflicts.
基金The authors are grateful for the general support from the research fund of the School of Social Development and Public Policy at Hehai University.This paper is supported by the funding of China Social Sciences Foundation Western Project“An Empirical Study of Readjusted School Distribution in the Urbanization Process in Pastoral Areas”(牧区城镇化进程中的学校布局调整实证研究,Ref.code:11XSH024)and is also supported by the funding of“Key Symbols of Ethnonationalities in China and Their Influence over Ethnonationality Relations”(我国各民族关键符号及其对民族关系的影响研究,Ref.code:13AZD057)and the China Social Sciences Foundation Key Project“The Identity with the State by Ethnonationalities of China”(中国各民族的国家认同研究,Ref.code:10AMZ003).
文摘Anxieties about Chinese-Mongolian-English trilingual program in Inner Mongolia reflect three linguistic ideologies,that is,the instrumental and the essentialist among Mongolian elites and the assimilationist among Han elites.Mongolian ethnicity is on trial in front of an upsurge of Chinese nationalism.Both pro and con trilingual education elites agree that the Mongolian language should be maintained,but they differ over the ways it is taught.In China,the nationwide drive to go back to“basics”has also encouraged national minorities to keep their traditional culture alive.Such surviving efforts demand a great measure of artful negotiating skills,necessary compromise,and strategic thinking.The trilingual education program in Inner Mongolia serves as a platform on which contending linguistic ideologies confront each other.
