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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"mainland Chinese"”.
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Sojourner adjustment: the experience of wives of mainland Chinese graduate students
Thousands of Chinese women from the People's Republic of China (PRC, or commonly known as Mainland China) come to the united states hoping to be re-united with their husbands and to support them in finishing their education. They all face similar kinds of experiences on arrival. They mayor may not …
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Masculinity on the run: history, nation and subjectivity in contemporary mainland Chinese cinema
… representations of masculinities in modern Mainland Chinese cinema from the early reform period to the year 2000. It argues that masculinities from this era are `on the run'; that is, male protagonists' ambiguous relationships with dominant discourses of nation, history and new formulations …
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Autonomy and Relatedness in Mainland Chinese Adolescents: Social or Personal? Accommodation or Distinctiveness?
… for these two constructs. In Study 1, 143 mainland Chinese adolescents were asked open-ended questions about their understanding of autonomy and relatedness in three social contexts (peer, family, school). Chinese youth’s responses captured universal and culturally distinctive forms of …
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A study of intercultural discourse between mainland Chinese speakers of English and Anglo-Australians
Intercultural communication between mainland Chinese speakers of English and Anglo-Australians is receiving ever-increasing attention in many fields. These fields include intercultural communication. English language teaching, education and business. This study approached the intercultural …
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Globally competent leadership : comparison between U.S. American and mainland Chinese conceptualization of effective leadership
… measuring differences between U.S. American and Chinese preferences for specific leadership characteristics and behaviors. An online survey was administered to U.S. American and Chinese nationals working in U.S.-based multinational corporations (MNCs). Respondents were asked to indicate the …
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The Effect of Study Abroad on the Development of Intercultural Sensitivity among Mainland Chinese High School Students
… of intercultural sensitivity among the Mainland Chinese high school students. The sample consisted of 50 study abroad participants and 50 students on home campus. The instrument Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) was employed to assess the intercultural sensitivity level of …
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The Mainland Chinese Students' Attitudes and Beliefs to Get a Degree in the United States: A Q Methodology
North Carolina State University Theses Human Resource Development.
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Free Chinese immigration to South Africa in the twentieth century: survival and opportunity
This thesis focuses on the Chinese free immigrants to South Africa from 1904 to the present. It charts the volume and flow of Chinese immigrants, as well as the relationship between different groups of Chinese immigrants and the relationship between Chinese immigrants and local communities where …
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Challenges Facing First Year Chinese International Students In a California Private School
<p>Mandarin speaking, mainland Chinese secondary students enrolled in grades nine through twelve make up almost 50% of America's international student population (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 2015). According to the literature, these students face unique challenges in their education: …
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Guiding public protest: assessing the propaganda model of China’s hybrid newspaper industry
… presents an account and analysis of published mainland Chinese media coverage surrounding three major events of public protest during the Hu-Wen era (2003-2013). The research makes a qualitative analysis of printed material drawn from a range of news outlets, differentiated by their specific …
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Covert resistance : an Embodiment of the "One Country. Two Systems" Principle in Hong Kong
… with China. The distinction of the Hong Kong Chinese and the mainland Chinese was a result of the systemic differences across the border. The "One Country, Two Systems" principle allowed the capitalist and democratic systems of the British colonial rule remain unchanged in Hong Kong, setting …
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Exploring the reasons for student ethnic groupings: The case of Chinese students at the University of Windsor (Ontario).
… the reasons of the common phenomenon that Mainland Chinese international students on a Canadian university campus are always seen staying within their own culturally homogenous circles with very limited communication with other students from different cultural backgrounds. A qualitative …
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Transforming the Self through Benefiting Others: Fo Guang Shan Humanistic Buddhism in the People's Republic of China
… Light Mountain, 佛光山), a Taiwan-based Han-Chinese Buddhist movement that is socially engaged and highly active on a global scale. The particular focus is the development of FGS in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). It aims to answer the question: wherein lies the appeal of FGS Humanistic …
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LIKE A DUCK ON WATER: CHINESE ACADEMIC MIGRANTS IN THE U.S. AND THEIR SUBURBAN WEEKEND CHINESE SCHOOL
… diverse experiences of hundreds of thousands of mainland Chinese who, since 1979, have come to the U.S. primarily for graduate study and mostly settled here afterwards in dispersed university or corporate jobs and suburban residences. After the Immigration Act of 1990, many of them have become …
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Reassessing the cultural distance between China and the United States as perceived by students from the Sino-American 1+2+1 dual degree program
… commerce and academic exchange between Mainland China and the United States, this thesis examines the present-day validity of those Chinese and American cultural characteristics, such as practices and values, historically understood as defining cultural differences. Using Babiker's …
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Mobilising Morality: Moral Education Reform within China’s 21st Century ‘New Era’
… of this study is to enhance our understanding of Chinese moral education reforms under the scope of Xi Jinping’s ‘New Era’ national reforms. It does this through examining the relationship between the prescribed expectations and lived realisations of moral education reform within the compulsory …
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The ecological turn: positioning the natural world in post-Mao fiction and film
… literary traditions) with discourses of post-Mao Chinese modernity. Topographical and spatial transformations within Mainland China, accompanying an ideological shift from Maoism to a mode of global neo-liberal capitalism, have challenged individual writers and filmmakers in their narration of …
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