Understanding Chinese International Students’ Stances on Anti-China Rhetoric: A Postcolonial Perspective

Along similar lines, Bhabha (1990, 1994) questioned the tenability of colonial authorities, introducing the notions of hybridity and the third space, which stressed the potential of (post)colonial subjects to resist the coloniality of power and imagine alternative ways of being and becoming. DATA Th...

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Published inJournal of college student development Vol. 64; no. 5; pp. 600 - 605
Main Author Yin, Peng
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 01.09.2023
Subjects
Coding
Colonialism
Critical thinking
Data analysis
Education
Exceptionalism
Foreign students
Grammatical aspect
Ideology
International
International Education
International Educational Exchange
Logical Thinking
Mythology
Postcolonialism
Recursion
Researcher subject relations
Rhetoric
Social exclusion
Student attitudes
Study abroad
Subjectivity
Thinking Skills
Xenophobia
United States > US
China
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Summary:Along similar lines, Bhabha (1990, 1994) questioned the tenability of colonial authorities, introducing the notions of hybridity and the third space, which stressed the potential of (post)colonial subjects to resist the coloniality of power and imagine alternative ways of being and becoming. DATA The study reported here came from a larger project developed to design and validate a survey instrument to measure Chinese international students’ attitudes toward anti-China rhetoric. METHODS AND FINDINGS Data analysis occurred in a recursive manner, featuring an iterative process of coding and analytic memoing grounded in the tradition of qualitative thematic analysis (Boyatzis, 1998). To alleviate the undue influence of the researcher’s subjectivity, I kept a self-reflective journal (Morrow, 2005) throughout the process of data analysis. When the demographic information of the students was taken into consideration, the patterns of student responses suggested that the students at the upper level (junior and senior years) tended to be more inclined to take a critical stance on anti-China rhetoric than their counterparts at the lower level. Besides the endorsing and critical stances, other Chinese international students tended to adopt a dubious stance on anti-China rhetoric.
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ISSN:0897-5264
1543-3382
1543-3382
DOI:10.1353/csd.2023.a911794