Intercultural Identity and Intercultural Experiences of American Students in China.

Autor/inn/en	Tian, Mei; Lowe, John Anthony
Titel	Intercultural Identity and Intercultural Experiences of American Students in China.
Quelle	In: Journal of studies in international education, 18 (2014) 3, S. 281-297Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch; englische Zusammenfassung
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1028-3153; 1552-7808
DOI	10.1177/1028315313496582
Schlagwörter	Erfahrung; Identität; Austauschprogramm; Interkulturalität; Auslandsstudium; Internationalität; China
Abstract	The number of international students in China is increasing rapidly, but their experiences in China remain largely unknown. This article reports an intensive longitudinal multiple case study that explores eight American students' intercultural experiences and the impacts of such experiences on individual identity during their study in a Chinese university in 2010. Data come from monthly interviews and diaries that the students kept. Findings support Kim's depiction of the processes by which intercultural identity emerges, notably the stress-adaptation-growth cycle and the concurrent processes of acculturation and deculturation. These findings reveal the journey of participants from cultural naivety to an emergent intercultural awareness and cultural critical capacity. Despite considerable ignorance and misunderstanding about China as an exotic "other" at the beginning of the program, all participants underwent some degree of cultural identity shift toward the more "open-ended... self-other orientation" of Kim's "intercultural identity." (HoF/text adopted).
Erfasst von	Institut für Hochschulforschung (HoF) an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Update	2015/1