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Learning The Mother Tongue

Jul 8, 2010

China has 56 ethnic groups—that's the common refrain of the People's Republic of China and a theme that was stressed in the Beijing Olympics. But the situation for these Chinese ethnic minorities isn't always pretty—as China quickly develops, many of these minorities have been left out of the picture. BON's Steffi Lau takes a look at China's poorest and most illiterate minority…

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