More Active Outside the Classroom (课堂以外更活跃：中国海外学生在澳洲与华人社区的互动)

Abstract

Australia has been one of the world’s leading providers of international education in recent decades, and international students, of whom students from China have long been the largest group, have made a significant contribution to Australia. However, while some research has examined the business aspects of this new export sector in Australia, little attention has been paid to the cultural and social lives of the students, allowing many negative comments about them to cloud our understanding of this generation of overseas Chinese students. Through an analysis of documentary sources, interviews, and the observation of Chinese students studying in Australia, this paper aims to challenge the negativity of popular “xiao liuxueshengdiscourse” and explores how students have interacted with local Chinese communities, and what they have learned from such connections. Special attention will be given to two positive aspects of their activities outside university, i.e., their casual employment as a way of gaining access to the local job market and some of their entrepreneurial endeavors.澳大利亚在近几十年一直是世界国际教育的主要提供国之一，海外学生为澳大利亚做出了重大贡献，而其中来自中国的学生长期以来一直是最大的海外学生人群。然而，很少研究关注到这些中国学生的文化及社会生活，因而致使很多负面的议论仍然影响着我们对这些学生的理解。本文旨在通过对各种文献的分析、访谈以及在澳洲对中国学生的观察，挑战广为流行的“小留学生”表述的负面性。本文将探讨这些学生如何与当地华人社区互动的经历，并分析他们从互动中所学到的经验。本文将特别关注学生校外活动的两个积极方面，即作为进入就业市场手段的打工经历，以及他们的一些创业尝试。This article is in Chinese Language