标题：毛锋，陈宇堃：Resilient governance and linguistic justice: a study of the dual-embeddedness mechanism in Malaysian Chinese education
作者：毛锋（上海对外经贸大学国际商务外语学院/上海外国语大学语言科学研究院；中国外语战略研究中心）、陈宇堃（上海外国语大学语言科学研究院；中国外语战略研究中心）
摘要：Within the research landscape of language governance in Global South countries, Malaysian Chinese education presents a unique survival and development trajectory. This study examines Malaysian Chinese education policy evolution since 1957, employing critical language policy theory and postcolonial governance frameworks through policy discourse analysis and historical institutionalism. The research reveals that Malaysian Chinese education achieved strategic transformation from cultural defense to governance participation, forming distinctive resilient governance. This manifests as a dual-embeddedness mechanism: at the ethnic political level, Chinese education maintains language rights through institutionalized resistance; at the globalized economic level, it transforms into developmental resources for nation-building. The independent Chinese secondary school system embodies agentic governance strategies of marginalized languages, while government attitudes shifted from tolerance to utilization, reflecting Global South countries' reconceptualization of cultural diversity in linguistic modernization. Theoretical contributions include proposing resilient governance, enriching marginalized language agency within governance theory, and constructing the dual-embeddedness analytical framework for understanding language policies in multilingual Global South societies. The practical significance provides a Malaysian model for addressing tensions between linguistic diversity and national unity, offering insights for constructing inclusive language governance systems.
关键词：linguistic justice; Chinese education; the Global South; Malaysia; dual-embeddedness; language policy
来源：Educational Linguistics 2026.04.07
欢迎引用：Mao, F., & Chen, J. Y. Resilient governance and linguistic justice: a study of the dual-embeddedness mechanism in Malaysian Chinese education. Educational Linguistics.https://doi.org/10.1515/eduling-2025-0021
