Abstract
My dissertation consists of two study areas, examining Chinese international students’ experiences pursing American higher education in the Age of Trump and COVID-19. Although I address different issues in each area, they have a common theme of better understanding the current generation of Chinese international students against the backdrop of Sino-US tensions, the global pandemic, and anti-Asian racism in the US. Drawing on theories in international education, the first area stresses the role of human agency and demonstrates that Chinese students tend to live and study resiliently amid current heightened uncertainties. The other one focuses on how Chinese international students perceive race and racism in the US. Through semi-structured interviews and follow-up exchanges at the climax of two anti-racist US social movements, the Black Lives Matter and Stop Asian Hate, the findings reveal that Chinese students held contrastive views on race and racism before and after their arrival, due to the disjuncture between ideological indoctrination in the home country and experiential exploration in the host country.
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