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Abstract

This chapter introduces the contextual background of this book. Student mobility stimulates research exploring international students’ learning experience abroad. Against this background, this chapter first reviews the educational, social, and cultural context of Chinese students. The chapter next looks at theories of adjustment. Based on this framework, the author puts forward the research question ‘How do Chinese students adjust to an intercultural learning environment at a German university?’ Research methods and design are discussed at the end of the chapter.

The pursuit of knowledge is superior to all other walks of life.

万般皆下品,唯有读书高

– WANG Zhu (汪洙)

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Yung Wing is the pronunciation of his name in Cantonese, which in Mandarin is Rong Hong; also, Wong Foon (in Mandarin: Huang Kuan) and Wong Shing (in Mandarin: Huang Sheng).

  2. 2.

    Wong Shing later returned to China due to poor health, and Wong Foon entered the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, after graduating from Monson Academy with Yung Wing (1909).

  3. 3.

    For instance, Tianyou Zhan (詹天佑), a Yale graduate among the 120 students, returned to China and became the first Chinese to undertake a railroad building project using only Chinese funds and Chinese supervisors.

  4. 4.

    The length of studying in primary education varies. In some provinces (e.g. Shanghai), primary education lasts six years, which is followed by a three-year junior middle school education, instead of a five-year primary education plus four-year junior middle school education in other cities.

  5. 5.

    In March 1959, sixteen universities were nominated as ‘key universities’. The list of these sixteen universities can be found in the document Notice of Ten Documents on Education Work Issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央关于印发教育工作的十个文件通知), issued on May 17, 1959. Another four universities were later added to the list in the same year.

  6. 6.

    For instance, the ‘Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution’ (无产阶级文化大革命 wuchan jieji wenhua dageming) or the ‘Down to the Countryside Movement’ (上山下乡运动 shangshan xiaxiang yundong).

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Zhu, J. (2016). An Introduction to International Chinese Students. In: Chinese Overseas Students and Intercultural Learning Environments. Palgrave Studies on Chinese Education in a Global Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53393-7_1

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