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SUMMARY:The Double-faced subjects: Deconstructing superiority of mainland 
 Chinese students in Hong Kong - Cora Lingling Xu\, Faculty of Education
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CONTACT:Heyi Zhang
DESCRIPTION:Drawing on qualitative data of an ethnographic investigation\,
  in this paper I explore how mainland Chinese (MLC) students in one Hong K
 ong university respond to dissonances between their global imaginations an
 d the challenging inter-relations between Hong Kong and mainland China. In
  particular I deconstruct the notion of superiority variously claimed by t
 hese MLC students and their Hong Kong counterparts. I pinpoint the relativ
 e\, situated and hierarchical nature of superiority and inferiority and ar
 gue that these MLC students reject the Hongkonger-Mainlander dichotomy and
  instead exercise their self-authoring agency to invent new options of ide
 ntities. While these inventive self-positionings are embedded in the globa
 l neo-liberal hegemony\, they are also indicative of these MLC students’
  capacity to appropriate a host of local\, national and global conditions.
  This paper sheds light on how border-crossing students exercise agency in
  dealing with displacements and disorientations.
LOCATION:Room 2S4\, Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Education\, 184 
 Hills Road\, Cambridge CB2 8PQ
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