From Diversity to Homogeneity

Abstract This article explores the shifting connotations of two key terms in propaganda texts on bilingual education policy Inner Mongolia. The are dumdadu-yin ündüsten (Ch.: Zhonghua minzu , Chinese nation) and ulus-un neidem hereglehü üge hel guojia tongyong yuyan national common language). I examine how meanings these have begun to shift as China strives shed its multinational character build a linguistically homogenous nation-state. new prominence given term (Chinese gradual substitution neitelig putonghua ) khitad (Han language) with (national Mongolia reflect shape China’s changing policies borderlands. In this brief exploratory article, underline Mongolian referring nation language undergo shifts their what sits at very core – Han irrepressibly exposes itself subsumes other meaning potentials.