Publications

Publication details [#53782]

Chang, Yanrong. 2010. Are you my guest or my child? Mothers' uncertainties in interacting with their returnee children in China. Chinese Journal of Communication 3 (2) : 167–184.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

acculturation | conflict | globalization | mother-child conversation | uncertainty

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This study examines how Chinese mothers try to discursively manage uncertainties as to how to understand and interact with their short-term reentry, “culturally transformed” children, coming home after several years of studying abroad.