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- Title
Cultural Adaptation as a Sense-Making Experience: International Students in China.
- Authors
Chiang, Shiao-Yun
- Abstract
China has recently become one of the world's largest receiving countries of international students. While China has practiced its open-door policy for the past 30 years, its sociocultural structure and practices may still be mostly unfathomable to the rest of the world. The goal of the present research is to find how international students perceive and identify with the Chinese sociocultural structure. Drawing upon a group of international students' self-reports in China, this article examines what dimensions of the Chinese sociocultural structure international students may most (or least) likely identify with. In contrast to most existing studies on culture learning and intercultural adaptation, this article demonstrates that international students' cultural adaptation is a subjective, sense-making, and culture-specific experience in China.
- Subjects
CHINA; FOREIGN students; CULTURAL adaptation; SOCIOCULTURAL factors; UNIVERSITIES &; colleges; STUDENT adjustment; ATTITUDE (Psychology)
- Publication
Journal of International Migration & Integration, 2015, Vol 16, Issue 2, p397
- ISSN
1488-3473
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12134-014-0346-4