The sovereignty conflict over border educational affairs between the nationalist government and the Protestant church in Northwestern Guizhou in the 1930s=從民族到國族 - 國民政府與貴州西北基督教會 教育主權的衝突與合作

Abstract

"In this article, I will discuss the sovereignty conflict over border educational affairs between the Nationalist Government and the Protestant Church in northwestern Guizhou in 1930s. From late Qing Dynasty, the Protestant missionaries built lots of schools in border China and confused the minorities’ national identity. Under the pressure of the second Sino-Japanese War, the Government tried to take back the educational sovereignty from the churches among the minorities. On the other hand, the native intellects wanted to take this chance to promote their ethnicity and to show their agency in responding to the Government as a mediator between the Government and minority society. "