Literature Review of Effects of Organisational Culture on Foreign-Educated Returnees at Universities in Yunnan

I propose to research on the topic of how organisational culture impacts upon cultural adaptation of foreign-educated returnees at universities in Yunnan and how to manage communication in the process of cultural adaptation and reintegration.In the literature review section,I review the major literature surrounding the role the foreign-trained returnees have played in China’s higher education.I also discuss the tensions between new returnees,senior returnees,locally trained young and senior scholars,and management in the organisational contexts of Chinese higher education.     

Clear Up Misconceptions When Bringing in "Returnees"

Not long ago, a certain city held a conference on exchanges of "interna-tional talent" (persons with training in skills needed in international matters). I learned that about one-third of the 5,000 trained personnel invited to the conference were "returnees" from abroad. However, few of these returnees actually reached agreements with the employing units. Some of the returnees had explicitly stated their expectations of finding work that would provide them with annual salaries of about 300,000 yuan, but not a few employing units backed off when faced with such high standards. Other units were doubtful that such high-salaried returnees were worth the price, or decided to look around before taking any action, or even clearly stated that such pricey talent lay outside their main areas of consideration. In view of the difficulties that increasing numbers of returnees are encountering and that are cropping up in the course of bringing them in, we should take a deep look at the reasons for the difficulties and clear up some misconceptions.     

海归教师对高校国际化建设的作用探讨——以上海交通大学药学院为例

以上海交通大学药学院为例,分析了海归教师在带动校园氛围国际化、科研国际化、教学国际化和学生国际化等方面发挥的作用;为了进一步发挥海归教师在高校国际化建设过程作用,高校应为海归教师营造良好的国际化环境、提供和谐自由的学术氛围、建构先进的高校管理体制。     

The transnational in-between identity of Chinese student returnees from the UK: Mobility,variations and pathways

Considering the rising tide of international student return mobility, the UK needs to pay attention to the long-term circulation and development of international student returnees. This study analyses the mobility, variations and pathways of the transnational in-between identity of Chinese student returnees from the UK, an under-researched group in the changing dynamics of international student mobility. This longitudinal study uses original data from 48 semi-structured interviews to show how student returnees’ identities change over time in transnational sociocultural contexts. This study develops a spider chart comprising multiple manifestations of transnational selves to account for returnees’ intermediary and heterogeneous states of transnational in-between identities. Based on the empirical evidence, the study finds that transnational in-between identity is characterised by a ‘self-in-between mobility’, seeking compromises and connections between the polar extremes of essentialist and non-essentialist approaches to identity. In such an identification process, the changing dynamics of agency play a pivotal role in (re)shaping multiple identity pathways as variegated temporal outcomes of mobility. The findings not only advance the theoretical and methodological constructs of identity, but also have implications for relevant concerns in international education.     

归国人员在高等教育领域的地位及变迁

本文根据作者整理的两大数据库提供了关于归国人员情况的量化分析。一是来自中国前134所大学中936名现任高层管理人员(校长、党委书记、副校长、党委副书记)的简历。二是在中国排名前25的大学中任教的2044名归国人员的简历。基于这些数据,可以看出中国高等教育领域中归国人员状况的变化趋势、分布情况以及流动性。对于归国人员特征的描述能帮助我们更好地探讨至关重要的问题：那就是面对国家教育政策的变化,中国大学的师资(无论是受本土教育还是受海外教育)需要做哪些定位、调整和改进?     

学缘和海归教师学术职业发展--一项基于上海高校的混合研究

学缘对教师学术职业发展有重要影响,而海归教师因同时拥有国内和海外二元学术关系网络而在学缘上表现出特殊性。本研究采用混合研究方法,在量化部分以上海21所高校的359位海归教师为样本,在质性部分对来自上海6所高校的10名海归教师开展一对一半结构访谈,共同探究学缘对海归教师学术职业发展的影响。研究发现:高校海归教师对自身学术职业发展现状的评价不高;学缘影响海归教师学术职业平台选择以及职业"入场券"的获得。"校缘"对海归教师学术职业发展影响不显著,但与海外导师联系的频率对海归教师学术职业发展有显著正向影响。研究最后从高校、学院和个体层面对促进高校海归教师学术职业发展提出政策建议。     

跨国资本:对中国归国学术人才的评估

本文从国际国内政治经济影响、政府政策以及个人因素等四个方面分析了海外学者回国的原因,力图通过对归国学者和本土学者在能力与贡献、国际联系、报酬和认可度、回国的比较观念以及短缺专业领域需求情况的调查与分析,客观地评估归国学者的“跨国资本”价值,并指出随着中国国际化进程的加快,归国学者所拥有的跨国资本将越来越受到重视,在中国学术机构中他们将处于主导地位。     

Pains and gains of working in Chinese universities: an academic returnee's journey

ABSTRACT

Over the past decade, an increasing number of overseas Chinese PhD graduates have returned to China to develop their career. For these academic returnees, one of the challenges is to (re)construct an academic identity in a familiar context that is also strange because they have been absent for a few years. In this autobiographical paper, the researcher describes and reflects upon the pains and gains experienced when re-entering and working in Chinese universities as a PhD returnee, revealing the process of his academic identity (re)construction when adjusting to different academic assessment policies. This writing offers an individual perspective on the challenges to returnees’ academic identity (re)construction and argues for the need to set up in-between spaces for inter/cross-disciplinary academic discourse between returnees and local scholars at Chinese universities. This paper aims to contribute to pedagogic debate on the development of more open research practices in Chinese universities.     

高校海归教师首聘期工作满意度演进:1979-2017年的实证研究

改革开放以来,海归人才已成为高校教师队伍中的重要组成部分。对不同年代归国教师的首聘期工作满意度及其变化趋势、影响因素进行分析,是对高校人才政策环境和海外引才效果的检验。课题组以全国48所研究型大学1979-2017年期间归国的541名教师为样本,开展问卷调查。研究发现,过去40年海归教师首聘期总体满意度水平不高。通过对四个时期多维度满意度的量化分析发现:薪酬待遇和文化适应等方面的满意度存在显著差异;随着时间的推移,工作自主性、压力和科研团队等方面的满意度呈现下降趋势;薪酬待遇满意度的平均水平最低,但近年来已略有提升。基于研究发现,提出增加海归教师工作自主性和职业认同感、提高基础薪资和建立稳定的薪酬增长机制等建议。     

混凝土温控验算理论在监理实践中的运用

本文结合厦门留学人员创业园研发中试大楼工程基础施工的监理过程,介绍在大体积混凝土施工的监理工作中所采取的预控措施和质量控制方法。     

International Mentorship and Research Collaboration: Evidence from European-Trained Chinese PhD Returnees

Drawing on a unique dataset that combines returnees’ survey data and their information on research publications extracted from the Scopus database, this study systematically examines whether and how international doctoral mentorship for Chinese students in European countries promotes research collaboration before and upon the return of these Chinese PhDs to China. The results show that a considerable proportion of European-trained Chinese PhD returnees had co-authorship with their supervisors during their PhD study, and most of them maintained this research partnership after returning to China. In addition to the co-authorship during doctoral study, some individual characteristics (e.g., gender and marital status) and organizational factors (e.g., country of doctoral study and current work unit) were also found to contribute to international research collaboration upon the return to China of these Chinese PhD holders. This study sheds new light on the mobility and research collaboration of international students and provides policy implications for promoting Sino-foreign student exchange and research collaboration.     

浅论准留学生心理健康问题

我国对于中国留学生在留学前的心理健康教育有着严重的缺失,社会对于留学生的重视往往放在海归人才上,而忽视了准留学生的思想教育和心理辅导。大学应面向社会开设相关课程和讲座,为众多准留学生及其父母提供服务。     

晚清海归在中国小说传统之间的取舍

当晚清海归开始着意于开掘小说所谓举足轻重的价值时,他们面对着两种小说传统：文人的传统与大众的传统。本着启蒙的初衷,海归们几乎一眼便相中了大众旨归的传统,而无条件无限时地搁置了文人传统。这一取舍对于中国小说历史过去之回应与未来之影响的意义都是深刻和深远的。小说传统中文人旨趣的被搁置使得笔记体小说在晚清的式微成为在所难免的事。相反地,应着启蒙的要求,通俗的历史演义小说却在这时被提出和强调起来。     

Returnees and Diaspora as Source of Innovation in Chinese Higher Education

This paper highlights how returnees and knowledge diaspora are important sources for China’s human resources development, identifying push and pull factors that also contribute significantly to innovation in the higher education sector. By outlining China’s key projects and schemes for recruiting international professional workers, the paper argues that bringing advanced knowledge and skills back to a country of origin through international education and experiences is neither new, nor limited to China. At the same time, the rise of a large, worldwide Chinese knowledge diaspora is now of global importance in promoting transnational scientific and business networks that underpin both research and development, and the quest for world-class universities. China’s size and weight, its determination to boost development and improve its higher education system, as well as the willingness of both diaspora and returnees to contribute, constitute its advantages. However, there remain limitations to its success, notably a lack of high-quality research, reservations regarding new ideas, low awareness of international collaborations, too much attention given to material rewards and quick results, corruption, and too many administrative controls and government regulations.     

Transcultural Risk Communication and Viral Discourses: Grassroots Movements to Manage Global Risks of H1N1 Flu Pandemic

This article proposes a theoretical framework of transcultural risk communication to examine how global connectivities influence communication about H1N1 flu. A case study was conducted to investigate risk management policies at global, regional, and translocal levels to cope with health threats posed by the emerging H1N1 flu epidemic. We explored how risk management approaches by Chinese Internet users facilitated the employment of a unique risk measure of exit and entry screening for returnees to China.     

中部高校海外人才引进工作思考

中部崛起,关键靠人才。当前,人才流失、引进难度大已成为制约中部高校发展的瓶颈。随着新一轮海归潮的来临,中部高校必须解放思想,采取超常规的举措,建立一套科学、完善的引进人才政策体系和考评机制,增强服务意识,努力确保海外人才引得来、用得好、留得住,发挥最大效益。     

浅析逆向文化冲击对留学教师的影响

对于归国人员来讲,归国前受到的异国文化与母文化的碰撞与冲击使得归国者在归国初期面对母环境时需要一定的时间重新适应本土文化。逆向文化冲击对留学教师及访问学者的生活,科研,教学等有着巨大的影响。本文试从社会学,跨文化研究的角度分析归国教师受到的逆向文化冲击及影响,适应性及其导致原因,借此希望引起对归国教师广泛的关注。     

温州新生代海归和本土青年婚外情观念的调查与分析

婚外情是影响家庭稳定乃至社会和谐的重要因素。对温州新生代海归和本土青年婚恋观进行随机调查,结果表明,对婚外情多持理解和宽容态度,但当配偶发生婚外情时多选择坚决离婚。为维持家庭稳定和社会和谐,夫妻双方应相互信任,加强沟通,善于经营婚姻;社会应积极倡导科学的婚恋观,弘扬社会正气。     

Chinese Returnees from Overseas Study: An Understanding of Brain Gain and Brain Circulation in the Age of Globalization

Among discussions on international academic mobility, a persistent challenge is to understand whether education abroad can become a source of brain gain, and whether globalization can offer source countries the hope that they might enjoy the benefits of freer cross-border flows in information and personnel. With reference to China, this article provides an understanding of these two issues. It reveals practical factors affecting returnees’ decision to return, their contribution to specific areas, and obstacles that limit their contribution and career opportunities. In addition, it sheds light on an emerging brain circulation between China and foreign countries, along with the increased cross-border flow of academic talent from and into China.     

华侨农场社会化转型探析——以泉州双阳华侨农场为对象

华侨农场是我国特定历史时期的产物,具有经济和政治双重属性。以档案资料的搜集整理和实地调查研究相结合,集中考察和探讨福建泉州双阳华侨农场的社会化转型过程,进而反思以华侨农场为主的集中安置模式带来的问题,提出归难侨的安置不仅要提供必要的物质性安排,更要建立使归难侨能够融入安置地社会的体制和机制。