International Students in China

Chapter 1. International Students in China - A Dream Come True?; Fred Dervin, Anu Härkönen and Xiangyun Du.- Chapter 2. An Analysis of Factors Influencing International Students' Choice of Education in China; Genshu Lu and Mei Tian.- Chapter 3. Journey to the East: Intercultural Adaptation of International Students in China; Ping Yang.- Chapter 4. British university students studying abroad in China: Issues of interculturality; Jiayi Wang.- Chapter 5. (Re)Conceptualising and teaching 'culture' in a short-term stay abroad programme in China - Students from a Danish university abroad; Niels Erik Lyngdorf and Xiang-Yun Du.- Chapter 6. Australian students in China: Making the foreign familiar; Steve Nerlich, Ross Tan, Donna Velliaris, Ping Yu and Christopher Lawson.- Chapter 7. Transformations of Chinese and Danish students' perceptions of the significance of culture in transnational education in China; Jin Hui Li.- Chapter 8. Experiential and Transformative Learning through CommunityService in China; Kaishan Kong.- Chapter 9, Language learning strategies and intercultural competence in the Year Abroad study in China; Hsiu-Chih Sheu.- Chapter 10. International Student Recruitment as an Exercise in Soft Power: A Case Study of Undergraduate Medical Students at a Chinese University; Mei Tian and John Lowe.- Chapter 11. Commentary: International Students in China: what we know, what we don't, and what next; Peidong Yang.

Fred Dervin ( ) is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He also holds other professorships in Australia, Canada, China, Luxembourg and Malaysia.