China’s New Preschool Rules in Tibet: Language and Culture at a Crossroads

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Ashu Maan* analyses China’s 2021 “Children’s Speech Harmonization Plan” and its wider push toward Mandarin-only preschool education, reshaping Tibetan cultural transmission, family structures, and religious identity; he places these developments within the broader debate on minority rights, assimilation policies and China’s persistent attack on Tibetan identity.

Something is quietly happening inside the kindergarten classrooms of Tibet, and the world is starting to pay attention. A recent report has sparked international debate over China’s education policies in the region, specifically around preschools, which critics say are being used to phase out ...

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