Becoming Bilingual in School and Home in Tibetan Areas of China: Stories of Struggle

This book contributes significantly to our understanding of bilingualism and bilingual education as a sociocultural and political process by offering analyses of the stories of five Tibetan individual journeys of becoming bilingual in the Tibetan areas of China at four different points in time from 1950 to the present.

The data presented comprises the narrative of their bilingual encounters, includ...