Titlebook: Intercultural Experience and Identity; Narratives of Chines Lily Lei Ye Book 2018 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 Chin

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Setting the Scene for the Narratives to Follow,s in relation to study abroad. This book moves away from the focus on student adaption to an exploration of agency and identity, challenging the culturalist and essentialised view of Chinese students as a homogeneous and sometimes problematic group. I first look at what is meant by globalisation and

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Engaging with the Existing Stories,ultural competences. I then discuss the lived-experience of Chinese doctoral students studying abroad. Much of the existing literature on Chinese international students is mainly explored through the lens of cultural knowledge and assumptions. Various critical voices, however, have been raised in re

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Exploring the Self Through Giddens and Bourdieu,underpinning the book project. This study is mainly underpinned by Giddens’ (Modernity and self-identity: Self and society in the late modern age, Polity, Cambridge, 1991) concept of “the reflexive project of the self” in which identity is seen as unfixed, fragmented, socially constructed and reflex

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Surviving and Thriving in the New Field: Keeping the Narrative Going,ew field they have entered. It explores how Chinese doctoral students use various strategies to safeguard their sense of ontological security and maintain a coherent sense of self during study in the UK. Many previous studies focus on Chinese students’ unfamiliarity with cultural norms and difficult

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Bringing the Future into the Present: Thinking Through Imagined Future Trajectories,jectories. I follow the same approach when I present other aspects of students’ narratives. The focus of this chapter is to discuss students’ future outlook and career orientation, which forms the substantial content of the reflexively organised trajectory of the self. The narratives of these partic

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Learning from the Narratives, the introductory chapter. It also highlights contributions to the body of knowledge, and addresses both practical and theoretical implications of the study. In addition, it considers additional matters such as the limitations of the research and potential areas for future inquiry. I finally suggest