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  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface and Acknowledgments
  6. A Note on Transliteration
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 / The Setting
  9. 2 / Religious Sites and the Practice of Religion
  10. 3 / The Dilemmas of Education in Tibetan Areas
  11. 4 / In Search of Tibetan Culture
  12. 5 / Culture As a Way of Life
  13. 6 / Tibetan Culture on the Margins: Destruction or Reconstruction?
  14. Appendixes
    1. 1 / Administrative Divisions in the People’s Republic of China
    2. 2 / Demographic Composition in the Autonomous Prefectures
    3. 3 / Data on Religion
    4. 4 / Data on Bilingual Education
    5. 5 / Place-Names in Chinese and Tibetan
    6. 6 / Guide for Semi-Structured Interviews
  15. Notes
  16. Chinese and Tibetan Glossary
  17. References
  18. Index

APPENDIX 1

Administrative Divisions in the People’s Republic of China

The highest level within the Chinese system of administrative division is the “province” (Ch: sheng). Apart from the regular provinces, province-level areas include the Beijing municipal area and the five “autonomous regions” (Ch: zizhiqu). The Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) is thus a province-level administrative unit.

Within each province, there are “prefectures” (Ch: zhou) and prefecture-level “municipal areas” (Ch: shi). Some prefectures are “autonomous prefectures” (Ch: zizhizhou) assigned to one or more ethnic minorities. However, within an autonomous region, there are no autonomous prefectures, since the higher-level administrative unit is already assigned to an ethnic minority.

Within each prefecture, there are “counties” (Ch: xian), some of which are “autonomous counties” (Ch: zizhixian). Counties are explicitly designated autonomous only when they are located within a prefecture that either is not autonomous or is assigned to an ethnic group other than the one for whom the county is designated. A municipality may also be a county-level administrative unit, but there are no autonomous municipalities.

Within each county, there are “village districts” (Ch: xiang) and “townships” (Ch: zhen). In some areas, the older designation “district” (Ch: diqu) is still in use. Since the early 1980s, village districts and townships have been administered by their own governments. Some village districts with large minority populations located outside autonomous counties or within autonomous counties assigned to other ethnic minorities have since been assigned the status of autonomous village district.

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