<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><p align="center" class="" style="text-align: center;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Call for Chapters<br class=""><i class="">International students in China: Education, student life and intercultural encounters</i></span></b></p><p align="center" class="" style="text-align: center;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Eds. Fred Dervin (University of Helsinki, Finland), </span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Xiangyun Du (Aalborg University, Denmark) &</span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Anu Härkönen (TUAS & University of Helsinki, Finland)</span></p><p align="center" class="" style="text-align: center;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Deadline for abstracts: </span></b><u class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">15 October 2015</span></u><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"><br class="">Volume to be published by Palgrave Macmillan in the <span class="" style="background-color: white;">Palgrave Studies on Chinese Education in a Global Perspective </span>(Series Editors: Dervin/Du)<span class="" style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 39.35pt 0.0001pt 35.45pt; text-align: justify;"><i class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">“Being an international student in China is an unforgettable and immensely rewarding experience. Not only will you be able to witness firsthand China's historic transformation from an underdeveloped country into a major global power, but you'll meet people from all over the world too. Many international students take advantage of the two long holidays in an academic year (each lasting one to two months) to travel around China and Asia”.</span></i><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;"> (CUCAS, China's University and College Admission System)</span></div><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 3.9pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">In 2014 China welcomed around 380,000 international students in its 2,788 higher education institutions. Most popular amongst Korean, American, Thai, Japanese, Russian and Indonesian students, they come to study humanities, business & management, and health professions (</span><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="font-family: Arial;">Source: China Scholarship Council, CSC). In comparison, the same year 459,800 Chinese students went to study abroad (</span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">Source: Chinese Ministry of Education). The </span><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="font-family: Arial;">total number of number of students in higher education institutions was approximately 34.6 million. Compared to other parts of the world, China may not appear (yet?) as a prime place for international students to study but the figures are increasing year after year. In the past decades, scholars have given tremendous attention to Chinese students studying aboard, trying to analyse how Chinese students experience cultural encounters and find their way through their studies in the so-called ‘western’ world. Nevertheless, research on international students’ experiences in China remains sparse. With the rapid growth of the number of international students studying in China, more knowledge and understanding of their experiences in China are needed as well as its proper ‘inception’ into the field of global academic mobility. </span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 3.9pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">This volume is interested in investigating the many and varied educational, social and intercultural experiences of international students in Mainland China. As always, when dealing with these populations, there is a need to problematize the very idea of ‘international students’. In this book the editors wish to publish chapters that deal with degree students, exchange students, free movers, trainees and students on a short-term study abroad such as summer schools. Potential authors may wish to concentrate on one of these populations or compare them.</span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 3.9pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">The volume follows a certain number of principles when examining the experiences of international students.</span></p><p class="x_MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-right: 3.9pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="font-family: Arial;">1.<span class="" style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="font-family: Arial;">As China and the Chinese are often constructed as archetypes of ‘otherness’ and turned into stereotypes (even in research), the editors wish potential authors to pursue a critical approach to questions of interculturality and to avoid the pitfalls of essentialism and culturalism which tend to ‘museify’ China and the Chinese. Reflexivity and criticality towards these aspects are deemed essential.</span></p><p class="x_MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-right: 3.9pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="font-family: Arial;">2.<span class="" style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="font-family: Arial;">Whenever possible potential authors are urged to use theories, concepts, and methodologies from ‘peripheries’ and to question easily accepted and uncritical models or ideas in relation to questions of e.g. the integration of students, cultural differences, obsession with the ‘locals’, etc. </span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">The editors wish to attract chapters on the following research topics:</span></p><p class="x_MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 21pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">-<span class="" style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">students’ motivations, dreams and expectations for studying in China</span></p><p class="x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 21pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">-<span class="" style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">encounters with other students and people (friendship, love relations, etc.)</span></p><p class="x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 21pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">-<span class="" style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">identity issues</span></p><p class="x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 21pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">-<span class="" style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">daily life (accommodation, food, shopping, social contacts, etc.)</span></p><p class="x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 21pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">-<span class="" style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">learning (intercultural, social, educational, professional, etc.)</span></p><p class="x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 21pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">-<span class="" style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">preparation prior to/while studying in China</span></p><p class="x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 21pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">-<span class="" style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">success, failure and disappointment</span></p><p class="x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 21pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">-<span class="" style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">impact of the experience on future </span></p><p class="x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 21pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">-<span class="" style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">alternative experiences </span></p><p class="x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 21pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">-<span class="" style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">traveling in China during their stay abroad</span></p><p class="x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 21pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">-<span class="" style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">impact on their returns to their home countries/institutions </span></p><p class="x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 21pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">-<span class="" style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">career perspectives</span></p><p class="x_MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 21pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">-<span class="" style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">other relevant issues.</span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;"><br class=""></span></b></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">Deadlines </span></b><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">Abstract of proposed chapter (300 words): <u class="">15 October 2015</u></span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">Full chapters to be submitted: <u class="">1 March 2016 </u></span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">Authors are invited to submit a 300-word proposal (including a few lines about the author(s)) in English to the editors (</span><a href="mailto:fred.dervin@helsinki.fi" class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">fred.dervin@helsinki.fi</span></a><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">, </span><a href="mailto:xiangyun@learning.aau.dk" class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">xiangyun@learning.aau.dk</span></a><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">, <a href="mailto:anu.harkonen@turkuamk.fi" class="">anu.harkonen@turkuamk.fi</a>) – please no pdf! </span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">The proposals should clearly formulate the research question(s), explain the theoretical positioning and concerns of the proposed chapter, and include a short description of data (where applicable). 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