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Peer reviewedZhao, Dingxin – American Journal of Sociology, 1998
Interviews students who were involved with the 1989 Beijing student movement. Finds that the spatial concentration of students on Beijing university campuses nurtured many close-knit social networks and exposed students to environmental influences promoting social action; these conditions helped sustain the student movement and guided its choice…
Descriptors: College Students, Dissent, Foreign Countries, Group Behavior
Peer reviewedHammond, Charles E. – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1992
The difficulties faced by Americans, coming from an individual-oriented society, in dealing with the group-oriented Chinese are discussed. Issues of reciprocity, prestige, stability and harmony are considered. (26 references) LB)
Descriptors: Chinese, Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Context, Cultural Differences
Peer reviewedChen, Xinyin; Chen, Huichang; Kaspar, Violet – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 2001
Examined the relevancy of group social functioning to individual social, academic, and psychological adjustment in China. Found that social functioning--including sociability, aggression, and shyness-inhibition--of group peers had unique contributions to individual social and school adjustment and adjustment problems, and that contributions of…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Children, Emotional Adjustment, Foreign Countries
