{"id":79432,"date":"2017-12-23T19:56:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T19:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=79432 "},"modified":"2017-12-23T19:56:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T19:56:00","slug":"79432-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=79432","title":{"rendered":"China Ends Mongolian-Medium Teaching in Xinjiang High School"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A teacher instructs a class in Xinjiang’s Bayingolin Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture in an undated photo.<\/span><\/p>

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Chinese authorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang have banned the use of Mongolian as a medium of instruction in the last high school to offer it, prompting an outcry among the country’s ethnic Mongolian community, RFA has learned.<\/span><\/p>

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Ethnic Mongolian pupils at the Bayingolin No. 3 High School in Xinjiang’s Bayingolin (Bayinguoleng, in Chinese; Bayangol, in Mongolian) Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture will now be required to use Mandarin Chinese in all classes and assignments, under a Sept. 1 directive issued by Xinjiang’s regional education department.<\/span><\/p>

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“<\/span>All classes offered in elementary and high schools must use Mandarin and written Chinese as the language of instruction,” the document orders. “They must also offer ethnic languages as a separate class.”<\/span><\/p>

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Ethnic Mongolians, who number some 43,000 in Bayingolin, took to social media to decry the downgrading of their language from medium of instruction to elective course, the New York-based Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center (SMHRIC) said in a statement on its website.<\/span><\/p>

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“<\/span>The ‘ethnic language’ mentioned in the document is offered as a single, separate, and elective course just like a foreign language,” the group cited a Mongolian resident as saying. “It is no longer the language of instruction for any other courses.”<\/span><\/p>

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An ethnic Mongolian resident of the area said the community was stunned by the move.<\/span><\/p>

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“<\/span>The wider Mongolian community is in a huge state of shock over the ending of Mongolian as a language of instruction at schools in the Bayangolin Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture,” he said.<\/span><\/p>

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“<\/span>People are very concerned about Mongolian-language education in Xinjiang and also the continuation of Mongolian culture there,” the resident said.<\/span><\/p>

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A nationwide policy<\/span><\/p>

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An official who answered the phone at the Bayingolin Bureau of Education confirmed the move, saying it is part of a nationwide policy to use only Mandarin as the language of instruction in China’s schools.<\/span><\/p>

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Asked if there are plans to end all teaching in ethnic minority languages, or to ban the use of non-Chinese languages altogether in schools, the official declined to comment, however.<\/span><\/p>

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“<\/span>I’m not too sure about that, and I can’t really comment, but we will be using the national language [Mandarin] in education,” he said.<\/span><\/p>

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The No. 3 High School was the last in the region to provide Mongolian-medium instruction, a Han Chinese teacher in the region told RFA on Friday.<\/span><\/p>

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“<\/span>It used to be called the Bayingolin Mongolian High School, before they changed it,” the teacher said. “But it’s not as if everything is being killed off with a single blow and you can’t use ethnic minority languages any more. That wouldn’t be appropriate.<\/span>”<\/span><\/p>

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But ethnic Mongolian dissident Hada said the move is part of a concerted effort by the ruling Chinese Communist Party to wipe out Mongolian in Chinese schools.<\/span><\/p>

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“<\/span>They have banned the use of Mongolian script and language across the board,” Hada told RFA. “This has caused huge anger among Mongolians around the world, not just in [Chinese-ruled] Inner Mongolia.”<\/span><\/p>

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“<\/span>I strongly condemn the authorities, and call on them to take immediate measures to restore all of their constitutional rights to [Mongolians],” he said.<\/span><\/p>

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Culture under attack<\/span><\/p>

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Germany-based ethnic Mongolian rights activist Xi Haiming said the Chinese government is trying to eradicate Mongolian culture within its borders.<\/span><\/p>

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“<\/span>Mongolians overseas are definitely not going to sit by and watch this happen,” Xi said. “The Chinese government should immediately halt this barbaric policy, and restore Mongolian-medium instruction in schools.”<\/span><\/p>

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Parents said via social media that they would petition the government to change the decision, appealing to regional officials to rethink the move, SMHRIC said, citing social media posts.<\/span><\/p>

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It said many quoted 19th century French novelist Alphonse Daudet, who wrote in reference to the banning of French during the Prussian occupation of France: “When a people are enslaved, as long as they hold fast to their language it is as if they have the keys to their prison.”<\/span><\/p>

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