A New Representation of Chinese Learners

"A New Representation of Chinese Learners" is an academic book that explores the experiences of Chinese students learning English in Sino-Australian programs in China. Through institutional ethnography, it examines an established Sino-Australian program at a Chinese university. The book highlights how participating students use Chinese terms and their meanings to describe their experiences in English classes with local and foreign teachers. It introduces an innovative theoretical framework, the "Representation Theory with a Multilingual Perspective," to analyze how the everyday experiences of Chinese students are constructed and conveyed through language, discourse, and identity. This framework also provides vivid examples of how concepts are created in both Chinese and English, serving as a powerful tool for deconstructing dichotomies between China and the West. The book aims to develop a more nuanced understanding of Chinese students and propose a new methodological and theoretical framework to challenge monolingual subjectivity and narrow-minded views in both Chinese and Western concepts.