Bei Ju
Biographic Data
| ID | 1195121 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bei Ju |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bei |
| FAMILY NAME | Ju |
| SIGNATURE | JU B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macau University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8324-9001 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
‘Intercultural dating is our painkiller’
Through the lens of culturally specific acculturation, this qualitative study examines how applications-enabled dating experiences shape acculturation among Chinese female international students in the UK. Drawing on semi-structured interviews of fifteen postgraduates, the findings reveal the paradoxical roles of intercultural dating in acculturation: a practical tool for enhancing language proficiency and communication skills, and a catalyst for…
Cultural Domestication Is the Safeguarding
Forces of modernization and globalization threaten the survival and continuity of intangible cultural heritage (ICH). Among studies on ICH digitalization, the voices of inheritors, particularly the elderly facing the challenges of aging and death, have not been fully heard in shaping digital media uses for ICH safeguarding. Situating technology domestication within ICH, this qualitative study reveals a nuanced understanding of how Chinese senior …
Navigating Digital Resilience
The enabling and constraining roles of social media in crises motivate a dynamic approach to examining digital resilience, inherent in the interplay between technological properties and enabling conditions. To expand the literature on how migrant groups navigate digital resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic, this study uses the concept of affordances as an analytical lens to examine how high-skilled international migrants in China used WeChat d…
Overt conviviality and covert distress
Emotions-as-practices involve an open, embodied, and meaning-making process as digital technologies can shape and transform how emotions are enacted. This study uses the concepts of emotional affordances and affective practice in digital culture to investigate the online emotional experiences of Chinese left-behind women living in a rural location. From an analysis of Douyin (TikTok) video posts and interviews with 18 participants, the study deve…
Flowering out of the stones
While healthcare quality continues to improve in China, the ways in which healthcare professionals respond to grief over patient death remain under-recognized. This study used interpretive phenomenology to explore how 20 Chinese healthcare professionals navigate experiences of grief, particularly in relation to their agency. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and participatory observation. Transcripts were analyzed using refle…
Resilience and (Dis)empowerment
The role of social media in a resilient process is associated with the co-constitution of structural forces and users’ agency. During COVID-19, how women—particularly low-skilled labor migrants—used social media for empowerment is underexplored. By taking a socio-techno approach, this study qualitatively examines mobile phone-based social media usage among female mainland low-skilled workers in Macao when coping with the pandemic. The enabling ye…
(Re)making live-in or live-out choice
Migrant domestic workers’ (MDWs) out-of-home flexibility and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic open up opportunities to examine the intrinsic reasons driving their decision-making in live-in/live-out patterns. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with 18 female, Filipina MDWs in Macao, the study reveals that live-in MDWs sacrifice their subjectivity to save money, whereas live-out MDWs’ create an empowering space for privacy, romantic relationships…
Struggling in im/mobility
The coronavirus epidemic (COVID-19) has led to drastic changes in social life. Focusing on a group of essential workers, this study examines how mainland Chinese low-skilled labor migrants discursively manifest their everyday lives via WeChat Moments. From analyzing social media posts and interview data, this study demonstrates that these labor migrants’ stay in Macao was a period of unsought and undesired time of waiting, impacted by socio-struc…
From voiceless to voicing
Understanding Chinese female university teachers’ intention to pursue a PhD degree
Perceived Understandings of Home and Self-identity among Mainland Chinese Dual Migrants in Macao
This paper focuses on the meanings of home and self-identity perceived by mainland Chinese dual migrant workers in Macao. Due to the high living cost in Macao, a majority of mainland Chinese labour migrants choose to migrate daily across the Zhuhai-Macao border. Drawing upon fourteen in-depth interviews and two group discussions among low-skilled labour migrants from the mainland, findings show the co-existence of temporality and situatedness in …
Understanding chinese internet and social media
In this chapter we set out to briefly sketch out a description of Chinese internetculture from its historical development through to some of its current characteristics.From the early roll out of the internet through to the use of social media Chineseinternet cutlture should be understood as emerging from the interplay of a numberof forces: technological changes, software development, user-generated interactionalpractices, and government censorsh…
Adaptation of Mainland Chinese Labour Migrants in Macao
This study explored adaptation as perceived by mainland Chinese labour migrants in Macao. Twenty-eight mainland Chinese migrant workers shared their lived experiences of crossing the Zhuhai-Macao border. Even though Macao and the mainland share cultural similarities, migrant workers did not perceive they were acculturating to the new environment. However, their personal and behavioural changes indicated other processes at work, as explained via c…
Unpacking and describing interaction on Chinese WeChat
Unpacking and describing interaction on Chinese WeChat
Adaptation of Mainland Chinese Labour Migrants in Macao
This study explored adaptation as perceived by mainland Chinese labour migrants in Macao. Twenty-eight mainland Chinese migrant workers shared their lived experiences of crossing the Zhuhai-Macao border. Even though Macao and the mainland share cultural similarities, migrant workers did not perceive they were acculturating to the new environment. However, their personal and behavioural changes indicated other processes at work, as explained via c…
Struggling in im/mobility
The coronavirus epidemic (COVID-19) has led to drastic changes in social life. Focusing on a group of essential workers, this study examines how mainland Chinese low-skilled labor migrants discursively manifest their everyday lives via WeChat Moments. From analyzing social media posts and interview data, this study demonstrates that these labor migrants’ stay in Macao was a period of unsought and undesired time of waiting, impacted by socio-struc…
(Re)making live-in or live-out choice
Migrant domestic workers’ (MDWs) out-of-home flexibility and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic open up opportunities to examine the intrinsic reasons driving their decision-making in live-in/live-out patterns. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with 18 female, Filipina MDWs in Macao, the study reveals that live-in MDWs sacrifice their subjectivity to save money, whereas live-out MDWs’ create an empowering space for privacy, romantic relationships…
Understanding chinese internet and social media
In this chapter we set out to briefly sketch out a description of Chinese internetculture from its historical development through to some of its current characteristics.From the early roll out of the internet through to the use of social media Chineseinternet cutlture should be understood as emerging from the interplay of a numberof forces: technological changes, software development, user-generated interactionalpractices, and government censorsh…
Adaptation of Mainland Chinese Labour Migrants in Macao
This study explored adaptation as perceived by mainland Chinese labour migrants in Macao. Twenty-eight mainland Chinese migrant workers shared their lived experiences of crossing the Zhuhai-Macao border. Even though Macao and the mainland share cultural similarities, migrant workers did not perceive they were acculturating to the new environment. However, their personal and behavioural changes indicated other processes at work, as explained via c…
Unpacking and describing interaction on Chinese WeChat
Perceived Understandings of Home and Self-identity among Mainland Chinese Dual Migrants in Macao
This paper focuses on the meanings of home and self-identity perceived by mainland Chinese dual migrant workers in Macao. Due to the high living cost in Macao, a majority of mainland Chinese labour migrants choose to migrate daily across the Zhuhai-Macao border. Drawing upon fourteen in-depth interviews and two group discussions among low-skilled labour migrants from the mainland, findings show the co-existence of temporality and situatedness in …
Understanding Chinese female university teachers’ intention to pursue a PhD degree
Struggling in im/mobility
The coronavirus epidemic (COVID-19) has led to drastic changes in social life. Focusing on a group of essential workers, this study examines how mainland Chinese low-skilled labor migrants discursively manifest their everyday lives via WeChat Moments. From analyzing social media posts and interview data, this study demonstrates that these labor migrants’ stay in Macao was a period of unsought and undesired time of waiting, impacted by socio-struc…
From voiceless to voicing
Resilience and (Dis)empowerment
The role of social media in a resilient process is associated with the co-constitution of structural forces and users’ agency. During COVID-19, how women—particularly low-skilled labor migrants—used social media for empowerment is underexplored. By taking a socio-techno approach, this study qualitatively examines mobile phone-based social media usage among female mainland low-skilled workers in Macao when coping with the pandemic. The enabling ye…
(Re)making live-in or live-out choice
Migrant domestic workers’ (MDWs) out-of-home flexibility and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic open up opportunities to examine the intrinsic reasons driving their decision-making in live-in/live-out patterns. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with 18 female, Filipina MDWs in Macao, the study reveals that live-in MDWs sacrifice their subjectivity to save money, whereas live-out MDWs’ create an empowering space for privacy, romantic relationships…
Flowering out of the stones
While healthcare quality continues to improve in China, the ways in which healthcare professionals respond to grief over patient death remain under-recognized. This study used interpretive phenomenology to explore how 20 Chinese healthcare professionals navigate experiences of grief, particularly in relation to their agency. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and participatory observation. Transcripts were analyzed using refle…
‘Intercultural dating is our painkiller’
Through the lens of culturally specific acculturation, this qualitative study examines how applications-enabled dating experiences shape acculturation among Chinese female international students in the UK. Drawing on semi-structured interviews of fifteen postgraduates, the findings reveal the paradoxical roles of intercultural dating in acculturation: a practical tool for enhancing language proficiency and communication skills, and a catalyst for…
Cultural Domestication Is the Safeguarding
Forces of modernization and globalization threaten the survival and continuity of intangible cultural heritage (ICH). Among studies on ICH digitalization, the voices of inheritors, particularly the elderly facing the challenges of aging and death, have not been fully heard in shaping digital media uses for ICH safeguarding. Situating technology domestication within ICH, this qualitative study reveals a nuanced understanding of how Chinese senior …
Navigating Digital Resilience
The enabling and constraining roles of social media in crises motivate a dynamic approach to examining digital resilience, inherent in the interplay between technological properties and enabling conditions. To expand the literature on how migrant groups navigate digital resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic, this study uses the concept of affordances as an analytical lens to examine how high-skilled international migrants in China used WeChat d…
Overt conviviality and covert distress
Emotions-as-practices involve an open, embodied, and meaning-making process as digital technologies can shape and transform how emotions are enacted. This study uses the concepts of emotional affordances and affective practice in digital culture to investigate the online emotional experiences of Chinese left-behind women living in a rural location. From an analysis of Douyin (TikTok) video posts and interviews with 18 participants, the study deve…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · China (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Social media (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Mainland (4 works) · Mainland China (4 works)