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Reluctant to Serve their Hometowns and Country

Xinjiang Class Graduates and Teaching in Xinjiang’s ‘Bilingual’ Schools

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In 2004, Raziyä, a young Uyghur woman from Korla (Ch. Ku’erle), graduated from Beijing’s Luhe “Xinjiang Class” (Ch. neidi Xinjiang gaozhong ban), one of the ninety-one schools participating in China’s national boarding school program for Xinjiang’s youth.

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    Timothy A. Grose

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    Edmond Hau-Fai Law

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Grose, T.A. (2016). Reluctant to Serve their Hometowns and Country. In: Lee, J.CK., Yu, Z., Huang, X., Law, E.HF. (eds) Educational Development in Western China. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-232-5_8

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