"This is a splendid book on an important topic. It raises diverse issues on education for minorities in China, which involves pressing problems of equality, interethnic relations, gender and others. The essays are balanced, fair, wide-ranging and critical

"This book is a timely and original contribution to the research on minority education in China that covers a wide range of topics including language, religion, gender, and intellectual styles. It will be a useful reference for scholars, graduate students

James Leibold is senior lecturer in politics and Asian studies at La Trobe University, Australia. He is the author of Reconfiguring Chinese Nationalism How the Qing Frontier and Its Indigenes Became Chinese (2007), Ethnic Policy in China Is Reform Inevitable? (2013), and editor of Critical Han Studies The History, Representation and Identity of China's Majority (2012). Chen Yangbin is lecturer in Chinese studies in the School of Humanities at La Trobe University and the author of Muslim Uyghur Students in a Chinese Boarding School Social Recapitalization as a Response to Ethnic Integration (2008).