Mainland Chinese Students’ Responses to the Cognitive Conflicts in Their Adaptation to a Hong Kong University: A Developmental Perspective

2016 ◽  
pp. 421-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min Zeng
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Chinese Students ◽  
Developmental Perspective ◽  
Mainland Chinese ◽  
Mainland Chinese Students

Examining Adjustment Challenges of Mainland Chinese Students in Hong Kong

2014 ◽  
pp. 97-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Chi Keung Cheung ◽  
Jocelyn Lai Ngok Wong
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Chinese Students ◽  
Related Services ◽  
Tertiary Institutions ◽  
Mainland Chinese ◽  
Mainland Chinese Students ◽  
Major Adjustment ◽  
Adjustment Issues ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

The purpose of this chapter is to examine major adjustment challenges facing mainland Chinese students in Hong Kong. Even though a large amount of studies have been carried out to understand adjustment issues of mainland Chinese students studying overseas, few are with students in Hong Kong. This study aims to deepen our understanding of the major adjustment issues of this particular group. The current study employed both quantitative and qualitative methods and included over 300 mainland Chinese students studying in seven major government-funded universities. The findings of this study point to the need that individual tertiary institutions and the Hong Kong government should step up their effort in responding sufficiently and flexibly in meeting the critical needs of these mainland Chinese students by paying additional attention to the quality and accessibility of both education-related services and non-education factors.

scholarly journals Transborder habitus in a within-country mobility context: A Bourdieusian analysis of mainland Chinese students in Hong Kong

2017 ◽  
Vol 66 (6) ◽  
pp. 1128-1144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cora Lingling Xu
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Deep Level ◽  
Chinese Students ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Border Crossing ◽  
Adequate Explanation ◽  
Mainland Chinese ◽  
Mainland Chinese Students ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Original Field

This article contributes to the updating of Bourdieusian sociology by proposing the notion of ‘transborder habitus’, a necessary extension of ‘habitus’ in a transborder context. ‘Transborder contexts’ refer to spaces that belong politically to the same country, share a deep level of historic cultural and/or ethnic entanglement, but can be ideologically, linguistically and socially divergent. Such transborder contexts present empirical challenges that notions such as ‘habitus’ and ‘transnational habitus’ cannot adequately address. First, the national borderline delineation presumed in ‘habitus’ and ‘transnational habitus’ can no longer account for the intricate and complex within-country border diversities. Second, although dissonances between border-crossing agents’ habitus and their original field have been sparsely noted in existing empirical work, few attempts have been made to offer theoretical accounts for habitus–field dissonances along the axes of religion, ethnicity and ideology. Drawing on in-depth interview data from an ongoing longitudinal study that explores the identity trajectories of 31 mainland Chinese students at a Hong Kong university, this article argues that ‘transborder habitus’ can effectively redress these two identified gaps and will show how it can offer a more adequate explanation in empirical contexts.

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