Review of Researches on Minority Educational Policy of the Central Government of the Republic of China

In recent years,studies of the early modernization of education in minority areas have gradually become an important topic in the research of modern Chinese history.The central government of the Republic of China attached great importance to the development of social,economic and cultural undertakings in the minority areas.It put the popularization of school education and public education into the formal educational system,treated it as a special social undertaking,which was different from the ancient cultural and educational policy context,and made systematic minority educational policy to implement it.This paper makes a brief review of the research progress on the minority education policy of the Central Government of the Republic of China from four perspectives of the frontier education history,the history of ethnic education,local history and policies study.Then it discusses the deficiencies in the study and points out the directions in the future.