Titlebook: Intercultural Experience and Identity; Narratives of Chines Lily Lei Ye Book 2018 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 Chin

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2945-6576 ents without resorting to essentialism or ‘othering‘.ProvideThis book examines the identity formation and negotiation of Chinese doctoral students in the UK, and the opportunity for self-transformation this experience offers. As the largest group of international students in the English-speaking wor

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Setting the Scene for the Narratives to Follow,ral students. I point out the importance of researching on Chinese doctoral students. I also outline the specific research questions that guide the study, and then explain the significance of the book project.

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,The Story of Researching Chinese International Doctoral Students’ Identity, focus groups and semi-structured interviews on the participants’ perceptions, experiences and themselves in relation to culture, language and identity. Both narrative and thematic analyses were adopted to interpret the raw data.

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Growing and Becoming: The Expanded Self,student adaption to an exploration of agency and identity. The analysis suggests that the participants have actively dealt with the challenges of study abroad, accumulated various forms of capital and achieved personal growth and development.

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Bringing the Future into the Present: Thinking Through Imagined Future Trajectories,, they challenge the dominant discourse of Chinese international students. Students’ verbal accounts illustrate how they construct reflexively an internally referential future trajectory to support their understanding of “whom” they perceive themselves to be in the present.

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Book 2018erience offers. As the largest group of international students in the English-speaking world, Mainland Chinese students encounter a range of difficulties and prospects that may be relevant to the wider international student community. Using extensive qualitative and empirical data, the author explor