Joint Seminar Co-organised by Citizenship Education KRA and the Centre for Citizenship Education
" Cultural Representation of Ethnic Minorities in
China’s University Media"
29 Oct 2008
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Chair
: Dr. Gregory Fairbrother, Speaker
: Dr. ZHAO, Zhenzhou
Dr. ZHAO, Zhenzhou
Post Doctoral Fellow
Coordinator: Dr. Gregory Fairbrother
ZHAO Zhenzhou is currently a Postdoc fellow in the Centre for Citizenship Education at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. Her research interests include social development in education, civic and moral education, and ethnic and women’s studies. She received a bachelor’s degree from the Beijing Normal University and a Ph.D. from the University of Hong Kong. She was assistant professor of Beijing Normal University before joining the HKIED.
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Abstract:
The readers or audience often regard the dominant ideology expressed in the news as normal and something to be taken-for-granted. This presentation aims to examine the representation of ethnic minorities in China through a review of campus newspapers, a major print medium in which universities exercise power over the discourse of cultural recognition. Three universities attended by minority students were selected, including Inner Mongolia Normal University located in Huhhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region; Beijing Normal University in Beijing; and the South China University for Nationalities in Wuhan, Hubei Province. The study interprets how ethnic groups are represented according to the guiding ideology of duoyuan yiti geju (pluralistic unitary structure) that explains the formation of the Chinese (Zhonghua) nationality.
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