International Students in China: Education, Student Life and Intercultural Encounters (Palgrave Studies on Chinese Education in a Global Perspective)

"As the number of international students in Chinese higher education increases steadily, this volume is one of the first to focus on their many and varied experiences. With contributions focusing on such topics as intercultural adaptation, soft power and interculturality, language learning strategies and the intercultural, and transformations in perspective, this volume provides the reader with a broad overview of the latest advances in the field of interculturality and study abroad. While the book will appeal to a global audience of researchers, practitioners and students with an interest in Chinese higher education, it will also be of interest to all those who remain intrigued by conceptual and methodological issues of interculturality."-- Provided by publisher Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii International Students in China: A Dream Come True? (Fred Dervin, Anu Härkönen, Xiangyun Du)....Pages 1-14 An Analysis of Factors Influencing International Students’ Choice of Education in China (Genshu Lu, Mei Tian)....Pages 15-46 Journey to the East: Intercultural Adaptation of International Students in China (Ping Yang)....Pages 47-75 British University Students Studying Abroad in China: Issues of Interculturality (Jiayi Wang)....Pages 77-94 (Re-)Conceptualising and Teaching ‘Culture’ in a Short-Term Stay Abroad Programme in China: Students from a Danish University Abroad (Niels Erik Lyngdorf, Xiangyun Du)....Pages 95-120 Australian Students in China: Making the Foreign Familiar (Steve Nerlich, Ross Tan, Donna Velliaris, Ping Yu, Christopher Lawson)....Pages 121-144 Transformations of Chinese and Danish Students’ Perceptions of the Significance of Culture in Transnational Education in China (Jin Hui Li)....Pages 145-167 Experiential and Transformative Learning Through Community Service in China (Kaishan Kong)....Pages 169-193 Language Learning Strategies and Intercultural Competence in the Year Abroad Study in China (Hsiu-Chih Sheu)....Pages 195-220 International Student Recruitment as an Exercise in Soft Power: A Case Study of Undergraduate Medical Students at a Chinese University (Mei Tian, John Lowe)....Pages 221-248 Commentary: International Students in China—What We Know, What We Don’t, and What Next (Peidong Yang)....Pages 249-255 Back Matter ....Pages 257-260