Different waves crashing into different coastlines? Mainland Chinese learners doing postgraduate dissertations in the UK

Researching Chinese Learners: Skills, Perceptions and Intercultural Adaptations

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 292-313

  Pilcher, Nick ^a   Cortazzi, Martin ^b,c,d   Jin, Lixian ^e  

^a EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^d SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

^e DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85016365079     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1057/9780230299481     Document Type: Chapter

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