Envisioning Change in China

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-115
Author(s):  
Dorottya Nagy
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Chinese Students ◽  
Network Organization ◽  
Chinese People ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Missionary Work ◽  
Intercultural Encounters ◽  
Lending Library ◽  
Complex Question

The present article examines the case of the Freundenkreis für Mission unter Chinesen in Deutschland (Friends of Mission to Chinese in Germany, FMCD) and its Chinesische Leihbücherei (Chinese Lending Library, CLL) to describe and analyze aspects of the complex question of the mission for China and Chinese people, with particular focus on mission work among Chinese students. By presenting the ministry of a German missionary couple, the article argues that the FMCD was one of the first, if not the first network organization after the establishment of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) that envisioned Christian PRC students as important agents in shaping Christianity and generating societal transformations within and beyond China. The case of the FMCD also provides an opportunity to reflect on intercultural encounters enabled by missionary work. The article uses data collected through interviews and participant observation in 2009, 2010 and 2013.

scholarly journals “Life Is Splendid Here in the U.S.”: Intercultural Learning in Contemporary Chinese Students’ Academic Adjustment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karolina Achirri
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Students ◽  
High Mobility ◽  
Intercultural Learning ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Social Settings ◽  
Chinese Learners ◽  
Intercultural Encounters ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
New Type ◽  
The U.S

The increasing numbers of Chinese learners studying at American universities and the high mobility across borders have recently challenged prevailing stereotypes of Asians in education. While studies of Chinese students are abundant, there has been scant research on how intercultural learning unfolds in these students’ adjustment to both academic and social settings. To address this research gap, I center my case study around six of my former students from China and examine their progress at different U.S. institutions. Data from their journals were coded and analyzed qualitatively. In tracing my participants’ first semester trajectory and their strategies to adapt to the new environments, I draw on critical approaches to the established models of ICC (Byram, 1997; Deardorff, 2006; Dervin, 2016). Through investigating my students’ previous exposure to Western education and its role in their adjustment, their intercultural encounters in the U.S., and the learning that emerges from such encounters, this project offers insights into how previous linguistic and educational experiences can be mobilized and optimized to enhance intercultural learning and what frictions can occur in the process of adaptation. I also delineate characteristics of a new type of students from China, namely individuals who move fluidly between cultures in hybridized ways. I conclude by providing pedagogical implications for language educators who work with multicultural learners.

Providing for Global Security

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 509-534 ◽  
Author(s):  
Courtney J. Fung
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Chinese Foreign Policy ◽  
Fundamental Question ◽  
Feedback Mechanisms ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Peacekeeping Operations ◽  
Troop Deployment ◽  
Policy Elites

Abstract A fundamental question facing global governance today is whether the UN peacekeeping regime can function with enough skilled troops to execute increasingly demanding and complicated mandates. The People’s Republic of China is informally thought of as a potential lead troop-contributing country. China typically deploys non-combat enabler troops, and recently began deploying combat troops, which may have to engage in live fire to defend the mandate. The risks and costs associated with dispatching combat troops challenge the benefits that China derives from supporting peacekeeping. I first establish China’s feedback mechanisms to facilitate simple and complex learning against China’s peacekeeping trajectory and motivations for participation. I then address the implications of China’s combat troop deployment, focusing on the UN Multidimensional Stabilization Mission in Mali and the UN Mission in South Sudan. The article draws insights from interviews with Chinese foreign policy elites and UN officials, and participant observation at the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations.

São Tomé and Príncipe: More than the Land of Cocoa and Coffee

2020 ◽  
Vol 03 (03) ◽  
pp. 2050006
Author(s):  
Francisco B. S. José Leandro ◽  
Anthony Lobo
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Gulf Of Guinea ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Sao Tome And Principe ◽  
Island State ◽  
Regional Engagement ◽  
Development Paths ◽  
The One

The Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe, a small and remote island state, located in the Gulf of Guinea, has long offered little geopolitical and geo-economic interest. This situation is however gradually changing. In fact, since 2016, interest in the country has begun to grow, after the country resumed diplomatic relations with People’s Republic of China (hereafter China) and recognized the “one-China policy”. While the island state and Cabo Verde have followed different development paths in the post-colonial era, both share common features and both have the potential to perform important geopolitical regional roles in the context of the Belt and Road initiative (BRI). This paper discusses São Tomé and Príncipe’s regional engagement in the Gulf of Guinea (GG), the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP), and in multi-level cooperation in light of the Forum for Economic and Trade Cooperation between China and Portuguese-Speaking Countries (FM) as well as bilateral cooperation. We argue that São Tomé and Príncipe is of geopolitical value to China and that the island state will serve Chinese interests in extending the BRI in the Gulf of Guinea. The microstate of São Tomé and Príncipe has the potential to transform itself to function as the “Qatar of the Gulf of Guinea”, and contribute to regional stability by providing regional services for shipping, banking, finance, high-quality education, tourism and as an engaged partner. This paper presents a methodological theoretical-inductive and constructivist perspective, combining qualitative, quantitative and non-participant observation.

Emotions and Authority in Religious Organisations

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-80
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Halemba
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
Ritual Practice ◽  
Religious Experiences ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Using Data

This article reflects on the place of emotionally arousing ex- periences within religious organisations. Using data obtained through participant observation and interviews, it outlines a research approach for investigations of the interrelationships between particular features of religious practices. Those features have been pointed out in many previous anthropo- logical and sociological works, but few works attempted to analyse connections and interdependencies between con- crete features of religious traditions. The present article takes inspiration from contemporary 'modes of religiosity' theory to explore further the relationships between highly emotion- ally arousing religious experiences and centralised religious authority. Going beyond Whitehouse's theory, it is argued that centralised religious organisations can influence the so- cial features of a religious movement through management of emotionality in ritual practice.

Introduction

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Margo S. Gewurtz
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Chinese Diaspora ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Medical Practices ◽  
Missionary Work ◽  
Intercultural Encounters ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Populous Country

During most of the modern history of the expansion of Western Christendom, China, as the world’s most populous country, was the great prize. Although the results were disappointing, as the numbers of converts both Protestant and Catholic remained relatively small throughout the height of China missions in the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, the promise of China missions never diminished. Despite the pre-eminence of China in overall mission history, very little attention has been given to the role and influence of China missions beyond the borders of China proper either to the Chinese diaspora or to the wider mission community. This special issue is a first attempt to explore the impact of “China” in missions beyond China’s borders. For our purposes, China becomes both a place where tactics and vocabulary could be invented and tried, a sort of laboratory for mission methodology, and a place of the imagination where “muscular” Christianity could be displayed and tested, or where medical practices were adapted with global implications. In more recent times, China missions, not allowed on the mainland after 1950, have once again as they did in the nineteenth century, addressed the needs of the Chinese diaspora in Europe and America. The essays in this collection challenge scholars to reflect more broadly on the variety of intercultural encounters enabled by missionary work, and ask us to think of this history trans-nationally by going beyond the borders of single nations or mission fields to embrace a global perspective.

China’s Brain Gain?: Attitudes and Future Plans of Overseas Chinese Students in the US

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan P. Kellogg
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Students ◽  
Chinese Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
The Us ◽  
Nationalist Sentiment ◽  
Return Home ◽  
Intention To Return ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Future Plans

AbstractThe largest group of foreign students currently in the United States comes from the People’s Republic of China (PRC). According to a 1993 UC Berkeley survey (Zweig and Chen 1995), 33% of the Chinese students were planning to eventually return home. However in the past decade this percentage appears to be increasing. This article uses results from surveys conducted in 2001 and 2005 of Chinese students enrolled at American universities to show that the intention to return home after graduation is indeed rising. Based on logistic regression analysis, the cause behind this rise is shown to be largely driven by the economic opportunities back home, although nationalist sentiment driven by the desire to give back to their homeland is also a prominent factor. The impact of 9/11 on US visa and employment policies was shown to have little effect on Chinese students’ post-graduate plans.

scholarly journals A Cross-Cultural Study of Self-Defining Memories in Chinese and American College Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuening Wang ◽  
Jefferson A. Singer
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Memory Function ◽  
Chinese Students ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Late Adolescent ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
American Students ◽  
Regulation Strategies

Self-defining memories (SDMs) are touchstones in individuals’ narrative identity. This is the first SDM study to compare college students from the mainland People’s Republic of China (PRC) to American college students. It examined SDMs, Big Five personality traits, and memory function in 60 students from each country (n = 120). Participants rated their memories for affect, recall frequency, and importance. Chinese students recalled their most positively rated memories more frequently and with greater importance, while American students did not show this pattern. American students who scored higher in Openness were more likely to recall negative memories. Memory content coding revealed that Chinese students recalled significantly more guilt/shame events than American students. Further analysis indicated that these memories were particularly focused on academic performance and parental expectations. The discussion suggests that follow-up studies look at differing emotion regulation strategies in the two countries, as well as at how the two different educational systems are affecting late adolescent identity formation processes.

scholarly journals Research on the Application of Archives and Historical Materials in the Study of the History of the Republic of China (1912—1949)

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shidong Pei ◽  
Qihang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Historical Data ◽  
Chinese People ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Historical Materials ◽  
Historical Materialist ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Republic Of China ◽  
The Republic

The history of the Republic of China is a very important history in the modern history of our country. During this period, great changes took place in China and the Revolution of 1911 abolished monarchy; then the Communist Party of China led the Chinese people in the struggle for national liberation and established the People’s Republic of China. Therefore, studying the history of the Republic of China is an inevitable requirement for historical development. To this end, this article starts with exploring the research connotation and value of the history of the Republic of China, comprehensively collects archival historical data, insists on using the historical materialist methodology to conduct research on the history of the Republic of China, and discriminates historical materials objectively and fairly. Three aspects have been studied and discussed.

scholarly journals A alternância no ensino superior: desafios e perspectivas na Licenciatura em Educação do Campo/UFV

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Sthefani Loti Paiva Lima ◽  
Lourdes Helena da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Rural Education ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Educational Experience ◽  
Research Participant ◽  
Pedagogical Practice ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Under Construction

In the last decades, in our society, the experiences of alternating training are expanding and the most recent phenomenon of this pedagogical practice is found in the scope of Higher Education. Studies in the specific context of the training experiences of educators in the field reveal that the alternation in these courses is a process under construction and point out the need for new academic works that can contribute to a better understanding of the course of different degrees in Rural Education. It is in this context that the present article is inserted, whose purpose is to describe and analyze the construction of alternation in the Degree in Rural Education at the Federal University of Viçosa. In methodological terms, the data were obtained from the combination of documentary research, participant observation and interviews with eight professors of the course. In our analyzes, we seek to present some reflections on teaching practice that could contribute both to subsidize actions and strategies of the course and to advance in the understanding of the possibilities of alternating training in Higher Education, analyzing the challenges experienced in the consolidation of this educational experience.

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