Macro and micro factors in ethnic identity construction and educational outcomes: minority university students in the People's Republic of China

2004 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 277-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Kayongo‐Male * ◽  
MaryJo Benton Lee
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
University Students ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Educational Outcomes ◽  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Republic Of China

Why Do Some Tibetan Women Climb the Highest Mountains? Gendering Mountaineering Practices on the Roof of the World

Inner Asia ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 293-311
Author(s):  
Maria Luisa Nodari
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
The World

This paper explores the lives of a number of Tibetan mountaineering women who have risen to celebrity by climbing the highest peaks in the world. It shows how they negotiated their gender and ethnic identity within the highly complex context of modern Tibetan mountaineering in the People’s Republic of China. Even though they use mountaineering as a means for emancipation, these Tibetan women enact gender roles in ways that are more complicated than the simple binary opposition between ‘old society’ and ‘new society’, reflected in Chinese modernisation narratives, suggests.

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