Guanglun Michael Mu: 3 books
Interpreting the Chinese Diaspora
Identity, Socialisation, and Resilience According to Pierre Bourdieu
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
Globalisation and migration have created a vibrant yet dysphoric world fraught with different, and sometimes competing, practices and discourses. The emergent properties of the modern world inevitably complicate the being, doing, and thinking of Chinese diasporic populations living in predominantly...
Building Resilience of Floating Children and Left-Behind Children in China
Power, Politics, Participation, and Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
The past two decades have seen exponential growth of urbanisation and migration in China. Emerging from this growth is a population of floating and left-behind children which is estimated to be approaching 100 million. Due to their increasing risks of undesirable educational and social, as well as...
Learning Chinese as a Heritage Language
An Australian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
This book explores the fascinating topic of heritage language learning, looking in particular at Chinese Australians’ learning of Chinese. The author studies the investment, challenges and benefits of heritage language learning across varied contexts including school, work, home and in the community....