International Students in China Education, Student Life and Intercultural Encounters /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Dervin, Fred (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Du, Xiangyun (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Härkönen, Anu (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies on Chinese Education in a Global Perspective
• Subjects: Educational sociology.; Educational sociology .; Education and sociology.; International education .; Comparative education.; Study skills.; Foreign study.; Sociology of Education.; International and Comparative Education.; Studying abroad.
• Physical Description: XIII, 260 p. 6 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319781204
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-78120-4

As the number of international students in Chinese higher education increases steadily, this volume is one of the first to focus on their many and varied experiences. With contributions focusing on such topics as intercultural adaptation, soft power and interculturality, language learning strategies and the intercultural, and transformations in perspective, this volume provides the reader with a broad overview of the latest advances in the field of interculturality and study abroad. While the book will appeal to a global audience of researchers, practitioners and students with an interest in Chinese higher education, it will also be of interest to all those who remain intrigued by conceptual and methodological issues of interculturality.