海外学者关于中国民族地区公共政策的研究述评

A Review of Overseas Scholars' Researches on China's Public Policy for China's Minority Areas

海外学者关于中国民族地区公共政策的研究可归为一般政策研究和专门政策研究两个层面。前者主要以中央-民族地区(国家-民族地区社会)的关系模式为轴线,探讨中国民族地区公共政策的整体历史演变、基本现状与发展趋势;后者则侧重从多元主义出发,关注与少数民族文化权利密切相关的语言、宗教和教育等具体政策在中国民族地区的实践进程、功能与现实挑战。由于其研究基本上是在西方的语境下展开的,体现的主要是一种"他者"的眼光,这就决定了其透过意识形态的有色眼镜所看到的,更多的是偏见。

Overseas scholars＇ researches on China＇ s public policy for China＇ s minority areas fall into two groups, general policy re- searches and specialized ones. The former usually take the relationship between the Central Government and the minority areas （state and the minority area/society） as the axis to explore the past, the present and the future of such policy; while the latter from the per- spective of pluralism focus on the implementation and functions of the religious, language and education policies in connection with their cultural rights. The paper concludes that these researches are basically carried out in the Western context and have a vision of ＂Other＂ with much prejudice.