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It was another sunny Tuesday and it was my last day at Prosperity Middle School. Waking up with the school bell like any other day, I started to pack my belongings and organize the materials I had used while I was there. School was still in session but I did not need to be attentive to its routine schedule. Some of the teachers had to teach and administer corporal punishment this day, and others may have to enforce Suzhi behaviors. The leaders probably had to deliver a few encouraging lectures on the imagined future of prosperity, too. They had taught me through their experience and knowledge in implementing state-run, compulsory education in this rural middle school located in a Muslim Hui region, and they continue to struggle between policy and practice.
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Wu, X. (2018). Education for Muslim Hui Youth at a Crossroads. In: Educational Journeys, Struggles and Ethnic Identity. Palgrave Studies on Chinese Education in a Global Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57054-9_7
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