“I Want to Feel That I Live in China”:Imaginaries and Hospitality in International Students’(mis-)Encounters at a Top Chinese University  

作　　者：Fred DERVIN Anu HÄRKÖNEN Mei YUAN Ning CHEN Wan ZHANG 

机构地区：[1]Faculty of Educational Sciences,University of Helsinki,Helsinki 00014,Finland [2]Turku University of Applied Sciences,Faculty of Educational Sciences,University of Helsinki,Helsinki 00014,Finland [3]School of Education,Minzu University of China,Beijing 100081,China [4]School of Experimental Art,Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts,Tianjin 300141,China

出　　处：《Frontiers of Education in China》2020年第4期588-620,共33页中国高等学校学术文摘·教育学（英文）

基　　金：supported by the Ministry of Education Youth Project of 2020 National Education Science Planning Project(No.EMA200394,title:The Construction of Internationalization Quality Model of Teachers in Minzu Colleges and Universities).

摘　　要：Research on international students’experiences abroad has tended to rely on models of adjustment,integration and/or acculturation to describe their(mis-)encounters with different kinds of people(e.g.,co-nationals,locals and other international students).This paper proposes to use the more fluid concepts of imaginaries and hospitality,leaving behind stages and phases of adaption and acculturation,and focusing on the influence of the Structure on their experiences.Based on a discursive pragmatic analysis of interview data with 20 international students at a top Chinese university,the authors review how the students describe the kind of hospitality experienced at this institution and the influence that it has on their(mis-)encounters.Culturalist,differentialist and essentialist imaginaries(static and fixed views of Chineseness)are often used to justify the lack of encounters and the“segregation”and somewhat“positive discrimination”that they experienced.However,the paper shows that,amongst others,the institutional hospitality management for international students leads to closed contexts of encounters and feelings of exclusion.Although the study serves as a case study and cannot be generalized to the many and varied experiences of international students in other universities in China,some recommendations are made to solve,at least in part,misconceptions about what interculturality and hospitality entail in the internationalization of higher education.

关 键 词：study abroad imaginaries INTERCULTURALITY HOSPITALITY international students CULTURALISM 

分 类 号：H31[语言文字—英语]