Overseas Students, Returnees, and the Diffusion of International Norms into Post-Mao China

Zweig, David; Feng, Yang

doi:10.1111/misr.12136

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“…Returnees certainly have strengths when such opportunities arise, and returnees from Australia seem easily to settle into a regular working style and environment. But whatever international practice they use, it has to address the local needs and follow the Chinese rules (Interview with Stakeholder C3).To this should be added a degree of local resistance and resentment, at times to returnees—notably by peers who criticize “the superstition that ‘monks from elsewhere are better at reading the scriptures’” (Zweig and Yang, 2014).…”

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When sojourners return: Employment opportunities and challenges facing high-skilled Chinese returnees

Jiang

Wen

Welch

2016

Asian and Pacific Migration Journal

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Focusing on the increasingly large numbers of Chinese students undertaking postgraduate programs overseas, this paper examines how international higher education shapes their subsequent career development in China. The specific focus is on their employment status, the impact of Australian higher education, and the challenges they experience upon returning home. A leading Australian university was chosen as the case study, and a mixed research method was adopted. By analyzing questionnaire and interview data, the paper argues that holding an international qualification is no longer adequate for employment success in China’s competitive labor market; rather, different forms of intellectual capital need to be consolidated and utilized. Unlike the previous generation of returnees who gained prestigious positions and made changes to China’s development immediately upon their return, the research finds that the current generation of sojourners faces a different and more complex set of opportunities and challenges. Although the majority of such graduates still retain an advantage in China’s crowded graduate labor market, the context is much more competitive.

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When sojourners return: Employment opportunities and challenges facing high-skilled Chinese returnees

Jiang

Wen

Welch

2016

Asian and Pacific Migration Journal

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“…Then, we determine whether the author was a signatory of "Charter 08", an anti-state manifesto drafted by a group of intellectuals led by Liu Xiaobo (Char-ter08). 13 Overseas Experience: Intellectuals who have overseas experiences may be more likely to be blacklisted for the following reasons: (a) they may spread subversive Western ideologies and discourses (Zweig and Yang, 2014); or (b) their international connections and fame make suppression against them politically costly. In this case, a complete blacklisting could be an economical choice for the state (Camp, 1985).…”

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Censoring the Intellectual Public Space in China: What Topics Are Not Allowed and Who Gets Blacklisted?

Yan,

2023

Perspect. polit.

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Censorship is one of the main forms of political coercion deployed by modern states to control and regulate public expression. In this article, we examine the political censorship of China’s intellectual public space, which has long been underexplored. We apply unsupervised machine learning to examine the database of a leading intellectual portal website, which serves as an archive of both published and censored intellectual writings between 2000 and 2020 and includes over 740 million Chinese characters. We identify a strategic censorship mechanism that consists of thematic and persona censorship elements. Thematic censorship involves the state filtering out writing that competes with the official policy narrative, historiography, and values. Persona censorship involves the complete muting of individual intellectuals who have previously made derogatory attacks on the supreme leaders of the Communist Party, which represents a symbolic act of open defiance.

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“…As the largest group of transnational students studying in the United Kingdom, Chinese students have drawn great research attention. Most scholarship analyses transnational Chinese students' migration either as ‘strategic plans’ to secure employment opportunities and future economic gains, (e.g., to gain university credentials and embodied competencies), or as nonstrategic distinctive experiences for ‘positional advantage’ (Gu & Schweisfurth, 2015; Ma & Pan, 2015; Xiang & Shen, 2009; Zong & Lu, 2017; Zweig & Yang, 2014). Existing scholarly accounts further stress the political, social and cultural aspects of students' migration by illustrating how it involves postcolonial discourses (Beech, 2014; Fong, 2011), government policies (Wang, 2021), middle‐class habitus (Zhang & Xu, 2020), and Chinese family culture (Tu, 2018a, 2019).…”

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Chinese students at U.K. universities: Transnational education mobilities as a stepping‐stone to adulthood

Wang

2022

Population Space and Place

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This article explores transnational Chinese students' education migration to the United Kingdom through a lifecourse perspective. Drawing on in‐depth interviews with 43 transnational Chinese graduates from U.K. universities, I found that participants regarded their transnational education migration as a stepping‐stone to adulthood. Influenced by the mobilities paradigm, this paper elaborates on the transitions to adulthood experienced by transnational Chinese students. The findings illustrate how transnational education mobilities transform social networks, in which transnational Chinese students rehearse their role as an adult in everyday social interactions, and how the intersection of Confucian collectivism and students' class background influences their experiences and understandings of transitions to adulthood. Therefore, this paper advances existing scholarship on transnational Chinese students by proposing a lifecourse perspective and exemplifies the complexities of mobile youth's lifecourse transitions by emphasising the cultural and social construction of transnational Chinese students' adulthood.

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Overseas Students, Returnees, and the Diffusion of International Norms into Post-Mao China

Cited by 16 publications

References 11 publications

When sojourners return: Employment opportunities and challenges facing high-skilled Chinese returnees

When sojourners return: Employment opportunities and challenges facing high-skilled Chinese returnees

Censoring the Intellectual Public Space in China: What Topics Are Not Allowed and Who Gets Blacklisted?

Chinese students at U.K. universities: Transnational education mobilities as a stepping‐stone to adulthood

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