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Unwitting Agents: Representations of Chinese International Students in US-China Geopolitics
As part of a larger study, this paper presents findings from my exploration of discourses about China-US geopolitics through popular discussions on Chinese international students (CIS) who are attending American universities during the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic. The study seeks to advance sch...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10230463/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37363615 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12140-023-09409-5 |
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description | As part of a larger study, this paper presents findings from my exploration of discourses about China-US geopolitics through popular discussions on Chinese international students (CIS) who are attending American universities during the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic. The study seeks to advance scholarship for international students attending American colleges, with particular implications for Chinese students, as agents of geopolitical relations. In doing so, it investigates (a) how these students are represented in American media and (b) the criticality of international geopolitics in the mobility of international students. The findings reveal that American popular media sources assume a tone when writing about CIS that may stem from a deeper anti-Chinese sentiment that exists in the US. They also suggest that American institutions of higher education, and American companies that employ CIS after graduation, treat these students as imported subjects/objects that support America’s intellectual and economic advancement. In doing so, the media perpetuates narratives of geopolitical tensions between the United States and China, while representing CIS as unwitting agents of those tensions. The study seeks to advance scholarship on international students attending US colleges, particularly those from China, during an era of rising populism and right-wing movements in the US coupled with rapidly deteriorating US-China relations. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12140-023-09409-5. |
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spelling | pubmed-102304632023-06-01 Unwitting Agents: Representations of Chinese International Students in US-China Geopolitics Xie, Wu East Asia (Piscataway) Article As part of a larger study, this paper presents findings from my exploration of discourses about China-US geopolitics through popular discussions on Chinese international students (CIS) who are attending American universities during the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic. The study seeks to advance scholarship for international students attending American colleges, with particular implications for Chinese students, as agents of geopolitical relations. In doing so, it investigates (a) how these students are represented in American media and (b) the criticality of international geopolitics in the mobility of international students. The findings reveal that American popular media sources assume a tone when writing about CIS that may stem from a deeper anti-Chinese sentiment that exists in the US. They also suggest that American institutions of higher education, and American companies that employ CIS after graduation, treat these students as imported subjects/objects that support America’s intellectual and economic advancement. In doing so, the media perpetuates narratives of geopolitical tensions between the United States and China, while representing CIS as unwitting agents of those tensions. The study seeks to advance scholarship on international students attending US colleges, particularly those from China, during an era of rising populism and right-wing movements in the US coupled with rapidly deteriorating US-China relations. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12140-023-09409-5. Springer Netherlands 2023-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC10230463/ /pubmed/37363615 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12140-023-09409-5 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2023. Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Article Xie, Wu Unwitting Agents: Representations of Chinese International Students in US-China Geopolitics |
title | Unwitting Agents: Representations of Chinese International Students in US-China Geopolitics |
title_full | Unwitting Agents: Representations of Chinese International Students in US-China Geopolitics |
title_fullStr | Unwitting Agents: Representations of Chinese International Students in US-China Geopolitics |
title_full_unstemmed | Unwitting Agents: Representations of Chinese International Students in US-China Geopolitics |
title_short | Unwitting Agents: Representations of Chinese International Students in US-China Geopolitics |
title_sort | unwitting agents: representations of chinese international students in us-china geopolitics |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10230463/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37363615 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12140-023-09409-5 |
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