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Today, the “convergence management” of international students in colleges and universities is becoming more and more important. We interviewed two Tsinghua Chinese international students and tried to explore such a problem through their struggle and integration: in Tsinghua, China What does it mean to add a foreign nationality to your face?

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After ten months in Wuhan, Lisa returned to the United States. When she and her family sat around the dinner table at home for dinner, she suddenly felt a little embarrassed: the experience of returning to China was like a dream, and she seemed to have never left here.

But the change really happened: she was even more shy, and began to pay attention to her expressions. She used to pay attention to the expressions and body language of the other person when speaking, such as backing up, meddling, and squinting. “,” Uncomfortable. ”

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Group display and social work organization are her few chances to contact Chinese students. Most of her classmates are international students, and it is difficult to team up with Chinese students. Her social work experience is basically limited to international students. Community.

Lisa uses “chaos” to describe her new arrival in Tsinghua. She was going to go to the school office, hospital, and public security bureau to go through the formalities. Her mother left midway. She was not good at Chinese, she had no traffic on her mobile phone, and she could only turn to a paper dictionary when she didn’t understand words.

Three years in Tsinghua, she has a deep understanding of the differences between Chinese and American education methods. Except for freshman Chinese class and “China Overview” class, basic classes such as calculus and linear algebra will be divided into separate international classes. As an international student, her other professional courses and assessment methods are the same as those of Chinese classmates. This is closely related to the “convergence management” policy.

In 2018, the Ministry of Education issued the “Quality Standards for the Higher Education of International Students in China In Tsinghua University

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According to the official website of the International Student and Scholar Center of Tsinghua University, there are currently 1,227 international undergraduates and 1,638 international graduate students from 128 countries studying for degrees in Tsinghua.

Mingming lives in a single room in the International Student Apartment. She very much hopes that she can live with Chinese classmates, but this seems difficult to achieve. In an interview with China News Weekly, Xiong Bingqi, deputy dean of the 21st Century Education Research Institute, pointed out that “the practice of converging management of international students faces real resistance. This problem may exist awkwardly for a long time.” It is reported that undergraduates in many schools in China It is a 4- or 6-person room, and the international student is a single or double room. Convergence management, either for international students living in the same four-person room as undergraduates in China, or for Chinese students also living in single or double rooms. The former are unwilling to study abroad, and the latter requires universities to promote logistics socialization reform.

Although Lisa is envious of the Chinese classmates who live together, in general, she has fully adapted to Chinese life. Since returning to college, she has returned to the United States twice, and has missed Beijing’s convenience as a big city: Alipay, WeChat payment, takeaway … She likes the liveliness of big cities, and her small American city is empty on the street at nine o’clock in the evening. Alone. That quietness disturbed her.

But she still prefers to play with international students. One of her two international students was forgotten by her classmates on a girls’ day and did not receive a gift. She told her this as a joke. She thought about the difficulty for international students to integrate with Chinese students. She also asked her international students. One of the reasons was due to the lack of contact time. Although the classes were in the same class, military training and accommodation were not together. She believes that interest-oriented communities are by far the best way to integrate.

Cultural differences will also have an impact: In the United States, college students prefer to exercise or spend time in their free time, or party, while Chinese classmates seem to prefer to watch the show alone to pass the time, “We may not play togetherin.qq.com/s/jueHH4nQsuIuJNwpDsaihQ “target =” _ blank “rel =” nofollow “style =” text-decoration: none; “> Tsinghua University Fresh Times (qingxintimes) , author: Zheng can book Zhangyue Yi