Proceedings of the 2019 5th International Conference on Social Science and Higher Education (ICSSHE 2019)

Acculturative Stories of International Students from Belt and Road Countries in China

Authors
Xinman Li, Ying Luo, Shuhui Lai, Taotao Long
Corresponding Author
Xinman Li
Available Online August 2019.
DOI
10.2991/icsshe-19.2019.9How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Ethnographic study, international students, culture shock, acculturation, the Belt and Road initiative
Abstract

This article focuses on international students from Belt and Road (B&R) countries at a university in central China. Since the B&R initiative was proposed, the number of international students in China from B&R countries has increased rapidly, but related research is seldom found. To analyze the problems and difficulties these international students face in their daily life and study in China, and to explore culture shock and acculturation process of them, an ethnographic approach was applied using the combined methods of participant observation and semi-structured interviews which ethnography characterizes. It is found that language barriers are a prominent problem. Different students had different experiences in social connection. They also had different opinions on Chinese faculty members and courses. Besides, culture shock is normally mentioned in the interviews. In the end, some implications of improving the acculturation of these international students are discussed. In addition, this study is also a supplement of the existing research on international students in China.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2019 5th International Conference on Social Science and Higher Education (ICSSHE 2019)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
August 2019
ISBN
10.2991/icsshe-19.2019.9
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/icsshe-19.2019.9How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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