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The study of knowledge workers is one of the most popular subfields of political economy in communication research today. With their numbers growing dramatically in developing countries, knowledge workers are playing an increasingly important role in labour movements globally. Focusing on China’s publishing industry, Jianhua Yao’s Knowledge Workers in Contemporary China presents a panoramic view of the challenges con-fronting media workers, particularly editors, in China. The book aims to address four interrelated questions: 1) What changes have occurred in the labour process of Chinese media workers, especially editors? 2) How do we understand these changes in the con-text of China’s media reform as well as social transformation? 3) What are the impacts of technological innovations and China’s integration to global capitalism on Chinese editors? 4) How are Chinese media workers responding to their deteriorating working environments today?
Cowley, P., Sun, S., Smith, M. and Kupakuwana, P.S. (2018). Working in China: Reflections from The Jiangxi Province. 10th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, 2-4 July 2018, Palma, Spain. [Online] Available from: https://library.iated.org/view/COWLEY2018WOR DOI: 10.21125/edulearn.2018.1920 The internationalisation of higher education has led to an increase in both the expansion of higher education institutions into new countries and also the scope for partnerships between higher education institutions and organisations in different countries around the world. These expansions and partnerships can provide interesting opportunities for academics wishing to work internationally. The purpose of this paper is to use one such partnership as the context for a research project which has examined the experiences of a university lecturer from the UK, who, through a partnership arrangement has spent a year living and working in the Jiangxi province. The data derived was based on 3 semi-structured interviews (2 Skype interviews and 1 face to face interview). These interviews were carried out between September 2016 and December 2017. During these interviews the respondent was asked to describe their experiences during this time-frame (both personally and professionally). The reflections and feedback of the respondent have been presented in this paper against the context of key research in the area of expatriate educators, focusing on 3 themes: 1 What were the influencing factors in the respondent deciding to leave the UK and start work in China? 2 What issues of adjustment has the respondent encountered in the new working and living context? 3 What are the key traits needed for successful expatriate educator adjustment? The feedback from the interviews highlighted a range of issues and opportunities. The respondent indicated that the primary positive outcome of their year working in China was the career development acquired through the development of new and existing skills and also the new professional contacts they made (these contacts have resulted in further academic and professional collaboration). The respondent highlighted keys challenges as being not only overcoming personal adjustment issues related to the general culture shock they felt throughout their time in China but also the professional adjustments they had to make when working with not only their new colleagues but also the largely Chinese speaking cohorts at the University (these adjustment areas were based around issues of systems, culture and language). The respondent indicated in the interviews that the primary motivating factor for relocating to China for work purposes was a financial one. The research was conducted as part of a larger project which is studying the working and living experiences of expatriate educators in different parts of the world; with the purpose of examining several key issues: motivating factors for expatriate movement, adjustment challenges, and the key traits needed for the successful adjustment of expatriate educators.
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