“I will change things in my own small way”: Chinese Overseas Students, “Western” Values, and Institutional Reform

Oktober 1, 2015, 11:38 a.m., Stig Thøgersen, Allgemein.
The article is based on a longitudinal study of Chinese college students who studied abroad as part of their BA programme in Preschool Education. It first examines the Chinese discourse on preschool education in order to understand the current situation in the students’ professional field. The main section then discusses students’ attitudes to what they perceived to be key values and principles in early childhood education in the West: freedom, individual rights, equality, and creativity. Students generally expressed strong support for these values and wanted to reform Chinese institutions accordingly. The article argues, based on this case, that while Chinese students abroad may not see themselves as the vanguard of macro-level political reforms, some of them certainly want to play a role in the gradual transformation of Chinese institutions in their respective professional fields.

Quelle: http://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jcca/article/view/882

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Overthrowing the First Mountain: Chinese Student-Migrants and the Geography of Power

Oktober 1, 2015, 11:38 a.m., Anni Kajanus, Allgemein.
This article uses Mahler and Pessar’s (2001, 2006) model of “geography of power” to interrogate how the general dynamic of Chinese student migration generates a variety of experiences at the individual level. Each Chinese student-migrant embarks on their journey from a different position vis-à-vis the flows and interconnections of the international education market. Some of them set out to achieve concrete goals, while others are motivated by a more intangible mission to become cosmopolitan subjects. As they move around, their shifting position in the hierarchies of nationality, class, gender, and generation influences their decision-making and their experiences. These power systems function simultaneously on multiple geographical scales, exemplified by the contradictory ways gender operates in the family, education, work, and marriage. To further develop the connection this model makes between personal characteristics, cognitive processes, and various power systems, I draw attention to the politics of ordinary affects.

Quelle: http://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jcca/article/view/881

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The Temporal Experience of Chinese Students Abroad and the Present Human Condition

Oktober 1, 2015, 11:38 a.m., Anders Sybrandt Hansen, Allgemein.
This article examines the experiences of Chinese elite university students abroad through the lens of temporality. In the struggle to get ahead, elite students are expected to carefully deploy their time. Studying abroad, it is argued, has become one more step in a culturally idealised temporal arrangement of how one is expected to go about advancing. The downside to this ethics of striving is shown to be a pervasive sense of restlessness (浮躁, fuzao). The article shows how relocating to a different life environment allowed a group of elite students to respond to their temporal predicament in existentially creative ways that registered socially as personal maturation. It is argued that these responses were set in motion by the students’ inhabiting an expanse of not-yet-purposeful time. Treating the temporal experience of Chinese elite students as a pronounced inflection of an increasingly global temporal mode of striving, the article enquires into the temporality of the present human condition.

Quelle: http://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jcca/article/view/880

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When the Hong Kong Dream Meets the Anti-Mainlandisation Discourse: Mainland Chinese Students in Hong Kong

Oktober 1, 2015, 11:38 a.m., Cora Lingling Xu, Allgemein.
This article looks at identity constructions of mainland Chinese undergraduate students in a Hong Kong university. These students shared a “Hong Kong Dream” characterised by a desire for change in individual outlooks, a yearning for international exposure, and rich imaginations about Hong Kong and beyond. However, when their Hong Kong Dream met Hong Kong’s “anti-mainlandisation discourse,” as was partially, yet acutely, reflected in the recent Occupy Central movement, most students constructed the simultaneous identities of a “free” self that was spatially mobile and ideologically unconfined and an “elite” self that was among the winners of global competition. This article argues that the identity constructions of these mainland Chinese students shed light on global student mobilisation and provide a unique, insider’s perspective into the integration process between Hong Kong and the rest of the People’s Republic of China.

Quelle: http://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jcca/article/view/879

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The Anthropology of Chinese Transnational Educational Migration

Oktober 1, 2015, 11:38 a.m., Anders Sybrandt Hansen, Allgemein.
Introduction to Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 3/2015: Going Out: The Lives of Chinese Students

Quelle: http://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jcca/article/view/878

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N° 31 : Méfiance

Oktober 1, 2015, 9:00 a.m., Tracés. Revue de Sciences humaines, Allgemein.

La méfiance, à laquelle la revue Tracés consacre son numéro 31, impose de traverser les frontières disciplinaires : elle soulève des questions psychologiques et institutionnelles, des enjeux d’efficacité économique, d’action politique ou de connaissance scientifique, et renvoie tant à des interactions circonscrites qu’à des transformations sur la longue durée. Nous invitons des contributions, issues de l’ensemble des sciences humaines et sociales, qui montreront que l’on peut saisir la méfiance sans se cantonner à la définir négativement – comme absence de confiance ou comme force destructrice.

Date limite d’envoi des contributions : 15 janvier 2016 (les auteurs devront auparavant avoir informé le comité de rédaction de leur projet de contribution).

Vous pouvez accéder à l'argumentaire complet par ce lien: http://calenda.org/334263

Quelle: http://traces.revues.org/6280

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16 | 2012 – varia

Oktober 1, 2015, 6:00 a.m., Anabases, Allgemein.
couverture Anabases16

Quelle: http://journals.openedition.org/anabases/3859

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Volume 90 Issue 04

Oktober 1, 2015, 1:00 a.m., Speculum - Current Issue, Allgemein.
Speculum, Volume 90 Issue 04


Speculum , published quarterly since 1926, was the first scholarly journal in North America devoted exclusively to the Middle Ages. It is open to contributions in all fields studying the Middle Ages, a period ranging from 500 to 1500. The journal’s primary emphasis is on Western Europe, but Arabic, Byzantine, Hebrew, and Slavic studies are also included. Articles may be submitted on any medieval topic; all disciplines, methodologies, and approaches are welcome, with articles on interdisciplinary topics especially encouraged. The language of publication is English. Speculum

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Volume 65 Issue 02

Oktober 1, 2015, 1:00 a.m., The Classical Review - Current Issue, Allgemein.
The Classical Review, Volume 65 Issue 02


The Classical Review publishes informative reviews from leading scholars on new work covering the literatures and civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome. Publishing over 150 high quality reviews and 50 brief notes every year, The Classical Review is an indispensable reference tool, essential for keeping abreast with current classical scholarship.The Classical Review

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Volume 62 Issue 02

Oktober 1, 2015, 1:00 a.m., Greece & Rome - Current Issue, Allgemein.
Greece & Rome, Volume 62 Issue 02


Greece & Rome is a journal which delivers scholarly research to a wider audience. It showcases original and informative articles on ancient history, literature, art, archaeology, religion, philosophy, and reception of the ancient world. Although its content reflects current research and its contributors include leading figures in the field, undergraduates and general readers who wish to be kept informed of current thinking will also find it engaging and accessible, as well as professional scholars in Classics and in other disciplines. With the wider audience in mind all Greek and Latin quotations are translated. A subscription to Greece & Rome includes an annual supplement of New Surveys in the Classics .Greece & Rome

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Quelle: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=GAR&volumeId=62&issueId=02&seriesId=2

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