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The Politics of Education on China's Periphery

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Recent years have witnessed heightened tensions around China’s territorial periphery - from Xinjiang in the Far West to Hong Kong in the Southeast. Unrest has both been provoked and further fuelled by intensifying efforts to assert central control, in a context of intensifying repression and surveillance across Chinese society. The targets of this repression encompass not only populations on the nation’s territorial borders, but also underprivileged and potentially restive constituencies in ‘Inner China’ (内地), such as migrant workers from the country’s rural hinterland. While issues such as Xinjiang’s ‘securitisation’, the vanishing of Hong Kong’s autonomy, intensifying tensions with Taiwan and the plight of the migrant underclass are each widely reported, they tend to be discussed and analysed in isolation from each other. Moreover, there is a dearth of comparative research into the role of education in explaining and legitimating Beijing’s policies domestically; disciplining and ‘re-educating’ recalcitrant communities on society’s margins; or widening the gulf in sentiment that separates the latter from those identifying more closely with the official narrative of Chineseness. This series therefore brings together some of the latest research into the politics of education in ‘peripheral China’. ‘Periphery’ is conceived here in primarily terms of territory, with reference to the intersecting dimensions of politics, ethnicity, religion, language and class / residency.

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Date 2022/11/24 12:00 ~ 2022/12/01 19:00
Session 1 Thursday, November 24, 12:00-14:00 JST (11:00-13:00 Hong Kong/China; 13:00-15:00 Melbourne)
Session 2 Thursday December 1, 10:00-12:00 JST (9:00-11:00 Hong Kong/China; 11:00-13:00 Melbourne)
Session 3 Thursday, December 1, 17:00-19:00 JST (8:00-10:00 GMT; 16:00-18:00 China; 18:00-20:00 Melbourne)

Session 1: Thursday, November 24, 12:00-14:00 JST
(11:00-13:00 Hong Kong/China; 13:00-15:00 Melbourne)

- Sicong Chen (Kyushu University): The Culturalisation of Politics in Contemporary Chinese Citizenship Education - Haruna Kasai (Kyushu University): Construction of ‘Local Cultures’ Through Multilingual Education in Taiwan: Comparative Analysis of Language Textbooks - Yan Fei and Edward Vickers (Education University of Hong Kong / Kyushu University): Balancing Unity and Diversity: Recent Changes in State Policies in Respect of Ethnic Minorities in China and Their Portrayal in History Textbooks

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Session 2: Thursday December 1, 10:00-12:00 JST
(9:00-11:00 Hong Kong/China; 11:00-13:00 Melbourne)

- James Leibold and Tenzin Dorjee (La Trobe University / Columbia University): China’s colonial boarding school system on the Tibetan plateau - Tianlong Yu and Zhenzhou Zhao (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville / Education University of Hong Kong): Confucian heritage in the Chinese curriculum: Views from the cultural margins - Wan Yi (Beijing Normal University / Kyushu University): Becoming a Moral Parent: Gratitude Education for Rural Migrants

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Session 3: Thursday, December 1, 17:00-19:00 JST
(8:00-10:00 GMT; 16:00-18:00 China; 18:00-20:00 Melbourne)

- Alessandra Ferrer (Kyushu University): The MTAC and Portrayals of Tibetan Buddhism on Taiwan (1949-2017) - Uradyn E. Bulag (Cambridge University): Dying for the Mother Tongue: Changing Parameters of Ethnic and Language Politics in Inner Mongolia, China - David Tobin (Sheffield University): Teaching Insecurity: Racism and visual affect in China’s “counter-terror” education - Edward Vickers (Kyushu University): Narrating the History of One Country in Hong Kong: Curricular change in the aftermath of the 2020 National Security Law.

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Inquiries

Professor Edward Vickers (Faculty of Human-Environment Studies)

Email:vickers.edward.645★m.kyushu-u.ac.jp (Change ★ to @)

Website https://www.ku-unescochair.com/en/