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Han and Tibetan Residential Patterns in Lhasa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

Rong Ma
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Ethnic conflict remains surprisingly persistent throughout the world. The persistence is particularly surprising in socialist countries, where one might have thought that the narrowing of income gaps between all ethnic groups, the favoured investment projects in ethnic minority regions, the official emphasis on equal education and occupational opportunity (often in favour of minority groups), and affirmativeaction programmes to ensure that ethnic minorities were well-represented in national congress and official positions would have provided significant new contacts and created new relationships among ethnic groups.

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The China Quarterly , Volume 128 , December 1991, pp. 814 - 835
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 1991

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