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OPINION
Since language is inseparable from cultural and religious identity to the Uyghur, Tibetan, and Mongolian communities, China’s requirement that they adopt Mandarin in school education and public institutions under its new law strikes at the very survival of these cultures, says Ashu Maan*, pointing out that international linguists and cultural preservation experts have repeatedly warned that state-driven language suppression of this scale constitutes a form of cultural erasure.
China’s newly enacted Ethnic Unity and Progress Law deals a fresh blow to linguistic and cultural diversity in Tibet, Xinjiang, and Inner Mongolia, formalising the supremacy of Mandarin over Uyghur, Tibe...
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