Becoming a Model Minority: Schooling Experience of Ethnic Koreans in China looks at the manner in which ethic Korean students construct self-perception out of the model minority stereotype in their school and lives in Northeast China. It also examines how this self-perception impacts the strength of the modal minority stereotype in students' attitudes toward school and strategies for a success. Fang Gao shows how this stereotype tends to obscure significant barriers to scholastic success suffered by Korean students, as well as how it silences the disadvantage faced by Korean schooling in china's reform period and neglects the importance of multiculturalism and racial for the sake of a "harmonious society" Book jacket.