Bin Ai
Biographic Data
| ID | 215441 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bin Ai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bin |
| FAMILY NAME | Ai |
| SIGNATURE | BIN AI |
| AFFILIATIONS | Shanghai University of Finance and Economics |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7952-8390 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Linguistic landscape, cultural capital, and tourism-based sustainable rural revitalisation in Zhujiajiao, Shanghai
This study conducts a detailed examination of the linguistic landscape in Zhujiajiao, Shanghai. Drawing on the theoretical frameworks of language as resource and language as cultural capital and using the method of nexus analysis, the researchers integrate the collected data and find that there is a substantial transformation from a predominantly simple and monolingual linguistic landscape to a multimodal and multilingual landscape, particularly …
Understanding linguistic landscapes in a Chinese inland village
Linguistic landscapes are an important part of a lived space, and the social semiotics of rural linguistic landscapes can reveal the everyday social practices of Chinese peasants. In this paper, the first researcher, a native born and brought up in an average Chinese inland village, conducted an ethnographic study of the rural linguistic landscapes in his hometown village. Walking through the village, using observation, photography and interviews…
Translanguaging, agency, and transpositioning
Under the influence of economic globalization, many globalizing companies are seeking for overseas markets and sending employees to a host workplace as business expatriates. Although extant studies have explored issues relating to business expatriates’ cross-cultural practices, insufficient attention has been given to them from the perspective of the interplay of their translanguaging practices, agency, and their transpositioning. In this study, …
Affective atmospheres, culture, and commodified translanguaging
In recent years, the Chinese people have been encouraged by the policy of Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation to engage in entrepreneurship on a small- or micro- scale. In this process, the entrepreneurs need to name their businesses; the micro-level language planning involved has not been adequately explored in research. By observing businesses in two streets in Liyang city, Jiangsu province, East China, the researchers examined the naming stra…
An ethnography of first-generation Chinese immigrants’ everyday integration and identity construction in Madrid, Spain
Unpacking digital-driven language management in a Chinese transnational company
In this exploratory case study, the details of language management in Company X’s translation service, which is going global, are fully examined and represented. The researchers utilized in-depth interviews to collect the data. Their findings regarding the driving/contributing factors relating to language management, the strategies employed, and the relevant effects are presented. It is concluded that this transnational company’s language managem…
Unpacking fluid linguistic landscape in a community coffeehouse in Hangzhou, East China
This paper enquires into the emergence of linguistic landscapes as cycles from fluid to frozen and fluid again. It is based on the first author’s ethnographic narratives of the appearance and disappearance of linguistic landscapes in a community coffeehouse in Hangzhou, East China. By moment analysis of the entanglements in everyday life that owners and customers share, we find that the meanings of the coffeehouse space are dynamically shaped by …
Examining language practices on linguistic landscapes of tourism in Xi’an, China
Aims and Objectives/Purpose/Research Questions: This paper draws on the framework of pride and profit to analyze language practices in the linguistic landscape of tourism in Xi’an, China. This study aims to answer (1) How are different languages used in the linguistic landscapes of tourism in Xi’an? and (2) How are the language practices on the tourism landscapes related to pride and profit? Design/Methodology/Approach: Visual ethnography is used…
Semioscaping English as a romantic register in Chinese otome games
This study examines how English is semiotically represented in video games, an under–explored but promising virtualscape. Drawing on the concept of semiotic landscape, this study critically explores how English and other semiotic resources work together to create social meanings and what are the ideological forces governing the process of semiotic appropriation. Data were collected from the in–game English representation and other semiotic resour…
Three-dimensional urban space misallocation in China
Starting a business is not stable, and it is risky
This qualitative case study investigates a cohort of Chinese multilingual learners’ language-based entrepreneurship intentions at a Shanghai university. It is found that, although entrepreneurship education and China’s national policy have cultivated these participants’ entrepreneurial intentions, most participants reported that they were not willing or did not feel able to start their language-based entrepreneurship. The reasons include lack of …
Mechanism of the impacts of older adults social participation on their health
Purpose: Against the background of population aging challenges in China, focusing on health, security, and social participation as core elements of positive aging, this study aims to formulate strategies for promoting the health of the older adults and reveal the pathways and trends of social participation in promoting health. Method: The study analyzed 1,015 randomly selected older adults individuals living at home in Beijing using household sur…
“Writing by oneself is too lonely”
Capturing Western educators’ perceptions of Chinese learners
Drawing upon interview data collected from six American professors who have taught in a Sino-US collaborative programme, this study explores these Western educators’ perceptions of their Chinese students. Adopting the theoretical lens of cultural non-essentialism, this study finds that these educators formed an appreciative and contextualized perception of Chinese students. They perceived Chinese students as individually different, respectful, op…
Exploring Tibetan residents’ everyday language practices in Danba county, Southwest China
In this case study, seventy Tibetan residents selected from two Tibetan villages in Danba county, Southwest China, were invited to participate in an investigation of their everyday use of Tibetan, standard Chinese, and English, as well as their expectations of future multilingual practices. It was found that there are intergenerational differences in the participants’ use of these languages. This paper, in the context of neoliberal ideology and r…
Teaching Myanmar students under the Gaokao policy in a borderland school
This study examines the classroom interactions and agentive practices of a cohort of Chinese teachers when teaching Myanmar students under the Gaokao policy at a borderland high school in China. The complexities of teaching Myanmar students of diverse backgrounds are manifested in the context of the constraints of professional accountability and working conditions. The study reveals these teachers' classroom norms and interactions are an outcome …
Unpacking Translanguaging Practices in Multilingual Business Communication in China
This qualitative phenomenological study examines a cohort of multilingual employees’ translanguaging practices in business communication at seven multinational corporations in China. It is found that these employees integrate various linguistic features of named languages stored in their linguistic repertoires; they spontaneously prioritize the linguistic features of different named languages in different contexts to achieve effective communicati…
Examining Chinese peasants’ transnational communication patterns and identity negotiations on an Algerian construction site
An increasing number of Chinese peasants are employed in globalised Chinese enterprises’ overseas projects; African countries are among their destinations. In this study, a cohort of Chinese peasants were interviewed to gain their perspective on their communication experiences in their everyday working and leisure life on an Algerian construction site. These peasants’ reflections, complemented by the observations of their Chinese professional co-…
Examining Burmese students’ multilingual practices and identity positionings at a border high school in China
This study explores a cohort of Burmese students’ lived experiences at a border high school in China and demonstrates that their multilingual practices and identity positionings constitute exclusionary effects that limit their interactions with their local Chinese teachers and peers. The paper argues that these Burmese students’ in-group interactions reproduce the process of exclusion, further complicating their identity positionings. This paper …
When City Meets Rural
Every year, a number of Chinese undergraduates from urban teacher universities are selected as volunteer pre-service teachers to teach in schools located in underdeveloped rural areas. In this qualitative case study, the researchers explore four pre-service teachers' 1-year experience as volunteer educators in rural schools, their communities of practice in the south and west of China, and present their reflections on the challenges, including ho…
Experiencing 'Paragliding
In this article, I (the first author) explore my qualitative research teaching for a cohort of Chinese students and their interactions in the classroom. These students reported experiencing feelings of paragliding from unsafe distrust to enjoyment through writings, drawings, questionings, feelings, reflections, and struggles. By graphic elicitation, I unfold a cartography of becoming a qualitative researcher and describe lines of becoming-events …
Multilingual communication experiences of international students during the Covid-19 Pandemic
While an increasing literature on multilingualism addresses the key role of language in access to social resources, including crisis communication, little attention has been paid to practices of English-mediated multilingualism. Based on semi-structured interviews with 10 international students from South Asia and Southeast Asia receiving their higher education in China, the study reveals what language-related challenges international students en…
Pains and gains of ethnic multilingual learners in China
During the past decades, ethnicity, identity and multilingualism have been a focus of research attention from humanities and social science scholars. In China, a large number of ethnic minority und
Ecological responses to the coastal exploitation of urban agglomerations along the Pearl River Estuary
With the rapid development of urban agglomerations in the Pearl River Estuary (PRE), an increasing number of ecological problems have been exposed to the surrounding coastal zones. The timely and accurate understanding of the eco-environment in PRE has become of increasing concern. This study aimed to quantitatively evaluate multi-temporal eco-environment conditions and then detect the conflicting patterns of the eco-environment under the influen…
Association between Socioeconomic Status, Physical Health and Need for Long-Term Care among the Chinese Elderly
The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES), physical health and the need for long-term care (NLTC) of the Chinese elderly, and further, to provide evidence-based advice for establishing an LTC system in China. A cross-sectional survey was conducted in Shandong Province, China in 2017 by using multi-stage random sampling method. Data were collected from elderly individuals aged 60 years and older by se…
Negotiating language ideologies in learning Putonghua
This case study investigates how a cohort of Myanmar ethnic minority students’ language ideologies shape their Putonghua learning and educational trajectories at government schools and Chinese supplementary schools in the borderland next to China. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews and from the participants’ autobiographies on their language learning experiences. The findings indicate that Myanmar ethnic minority students …
Multilingual communication experiences of international students during the Covid-19 Pandemic
While an increasing literature on multilingualism addresses the key role of language in access to social resources, including crisis communication, little attention has been paid to practices of English-mediated multilingualism. Based on semi-structured interviews with 10 international students from South Asia and Southeast Asia receiving their higher education in China, the study reveals what language-related challenges international students en…
Homeland Integration
In this study, the first author narrates his experiences of the challenges of integration into several Chinese universities as a PhD graduate after returning from Australia. His patterns of communication and psychological changes are examined in terms of identity construction and transformation. His insider position as a Chinese native and academic returnee enables him to see the realities of practice in average Chinese universities at close rang…
Examining Burmese students’ multilingual practices and identity positionings at a border high school in China
This study explores a cohort of Burmese students’ lived experiences at a border high school in China and demonstrates that their multilingual practices and identity positionings constitute exclusionary effects that limit their interactions with their local Chinese teachers and peers. The paper argues that these Burmese students’ in-group interactions reproduce the process of exclusion, further complicating their identity positionings. This paper …
Experiencing 'Paragliding
In this article, I (the first author) explore my qualitative research teaching for a cohort of Chinese students and their interactions in the classroom. These students reported experiencing feelings of paragliding from unsafe distrust to enjoyment through writings, drawings, questionings, feelings, reflections, and struggles. By graphic elicitation, I unfold a cartography of becoming a qualitative researcher and describe lines of becoming-events …
Living in-between
As a Chinese international student and a researcher, in this autoethnographic narrative I examine my gradual but intense identity work in Australia in the period between 2010 and 2013. Drawing on relevant theories of everyday life, identity and space, I explore small stories from my diaries as narrations of the changing nature of selfhood, as reflected in my academic learning, part-time work, homesickness and my emotional attachment to Australia.…
Simulating Urban Form and Energy Consumption in the Pearl River Delta Under Different Development Strategies
China is currently the world's largest energy consumer. The rapid growth in energy consumption has resulted in many problems in this country. The Chinese government has realized the necessity of improving energy efficiency and reducing energy consumption. As a useful decision-support tool, simulation models can be used to examine the potential impacts of different plans on urban development and energy consumption. This study presents a model that…
Examining Chinese peasants’ transnational communication patterns and identity negotiations on an Algerian construction site
An increasing number of Chinese peasants are employed in globalised Chinese enterprises’ overseas projects; African countries are among their destinations. In this study, a cohort of Chinese peasants were interviewed to gain their perspective on their communication experiences in their everyday working and leisure life on an Algerian construction site. These peasants’ reflections, complemented by the observations of their Chinese professional co-…
A new landscape index for quantifying urban expansion using multi-temporal remotely sensed data
Soil Restaurant? An Investigation into the English Translation of Travel Signs in China
The boom in Chinese tourism has occurred over the last two decades and it has highlighted many cultural aspects that need consideration. An example of this is travel signs, which are translated from Chinese into English and situated in countless travel destinations in China. This is not only convenient for international tourists but also establishes a dialogue between international tourists and Chinese culture. However, translation errors often a…
Simulating Urban Form and Energy Consumption in the Pearl River Delta Under Different Development Strategies
China is currently the world's largest energy consumer. The rapid growth in energy consumption has resulted in many problems in this country. The Chinese government has realized the necessity of improving energy efficiency and reducing energy consumption. As a useful decision-support tool, simulation models can be used to examine the potential impacts of different plans on urban development and energy consumption. This study presents a model that…
A Study of the EFL Writing of Chinese Learners
Writing is often a massive challenge for the learners who study English as a Foreign Language (EFL). Many EFL practitioners are searching for solutions to help learners improve the level of their writing. In this auto-ethnographic study, two narratives are discussed. In the first narrative, the primary challenges of EFL writing encountered by a cohort of Chinese international students studying in Australia are narrated and then examined from the …
Living in-between
As a Chinese international student and a researcher, in this autoethnographic narrative I examine my gradual but intense identity work in Australia in the period between 2010 and 2013. Drawing on relevant theories of everyday life, identity and space, I explore small stories from my diaries as narrations of the changing nature of selfhood, as reflected in my academic learning, part-time work, homesickness and my emotional attachment to Australia.…
Experiencing Different Identity Prototypes in Learning and Teaching English
In this paper, I narrate highlights of my long process of learning and teaching English as a foreign language in mainland China and Australia, presenting a picture of the practices of learning and teaching English in mainland China from the bottom up. Over the past 50 years, English learners in mainland China, as Gao Yihong has written, have demonstrated four different identity prototypes – faithful imitator, legitimate speaker, playful creator a…
Homeland Integration
In this study, the first author narrates his experiences of the challenges of integration into several Chinese universities as a PhD graduate after returning from Australia. His patterns of communication and psychological changes are examined in terms of identity construction and transformation. His insider position as a Chinese native and academic returnee enables him to see the realities of practice in average Chinese universities at close rang…
Pains and gains of ethnic multilingual learners in China
During the past decades, ethnicity, identity and multilingualism have been a focus of research attention from humanities and social science scholars. In China, a large number of ethnic minority und
Ecological responses to the coastal exploitation of urban agglomerations along the Pearl River Estuary
With the rapid development of urban agglomerations in the Pearl River Estuary (PRE), an increasing number of ecological problems have been exposed to the surrounding coastal zones. The timely and accurate understanding of the eco-environment in PRE has become of increasing concern. This study aimed to quantitatively evaluate multi-temporal eco-environment conditions and then detect the conflicting patterns of the eco-environment under the influen…
Association between Socioeconomic Status, Physical Health and Need for Long-Term Care among the Chinese Elderly
The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES), physical health and the need for long-term care (NLTC) of the Chinese elderly, and further, to provide evidence-based advice for establishing an LTC system in China. A cross-sectional survey was conducted in Shandong Province, China in 2017 by using multi-stage random sampling method. Data were collected from elderly individuals aged 60 years and older by se…
Negotiating language ideologies in learning Putonghua
This case study investigates how a cohort of Myanmar ethnic minority students’ language ideologies shape their Putonghua learning and educational trajectories at government schools and Chinese supplementary schools in the borderland next to China. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews and from the participants’ autobiographies on their language learning experiences. The findings indicate that Myanmar ethnic minority students …
Multilingual communication experiences of international students during the Covid-19 Pandemic
While an increasing literature on multilingualism addresses the key role of language in access to social resources, including crisis communication, little attention has been paid to practices of English-mediated multilingualism. Based on semi-structured interviews with 10 international students from South Asia and Southeast Asia receiving their higher education in China, the study reveals what language-related challenges international students en…
Unpacking Translanguaging Practices in Multilingual Business Communication in China
This qualitative phenomenological study examines a cohort of multilingual employees’ translanguaging practices in business communication at seven multinational corporations in China. It is found that these employees integrate various linguistic features of named languages stored in their linguistic repertoires; they spontaneously prioritize the linguistic features of different named languages in different contexts to achieve effective communicati…
Examining Chinese peasants’ transnational communication patterns and identity negotiations on an Algerian construction site
An increasing number of Chinese peasants are employed in globalised Chinese enterprises’ overseas projects; African countries are among their destinations. In this study, a cohort of Chinese peasants were interviewed to gain their perspective on their communication experiences in their everyday working and leisure life on an Algerian construction site. These peasants’ reflections, complemented by the observations of their Chinese professional co-…
Examining Burmese students’ multilingual practices and identity positionings at a border high school in China
This study explores a cohort of Burmese students’ lived experiences at a border high school in China and demonstrates that their multilingual practices and identity positionings constitute exclusionary effects that limit their interactions with their local Chinese teachers and peers. The paper argues that these Burmese students’ in-group interactions reproduce the process of exclusion, further complicating their identity positionings. This paper …
When City Meets Rural
Every year, a number of Chinese undergraduates from urban teacher universities are selected as volunteer pre-service teachers to teach in schools located in underdeveloped rural areas. In this qualitative case study, the researchers explore four pre-service teachers' 1-year experience as volunteer educators in rural schools, their communities of practice in the south and west of China, and present their reflections on the challenges, including ho…
Experiencing 'Paragliding
In this article, I (the first author) explore my qualitative research teaching for a cohort of Chinese students and their interactions in the classroom. These students reported experiencing feelings of paragliding from unsafe distrust to enjoyment through writings, drawings, questionings, feelings, reflections, and struggles. By graphic elicitation, I unfold a cartography of becoming a qualitative researcher and describe lines of becoming-events …
Teaching Myanmar students under the Gaokao policy in a borderland school
This study examines the classroom interactions and agentive practices of a cohort of Chinese teachers when teaching Myanmar students under the Gaokao policy at a borderland high school in China. The complexities of teaching Myanmar students of diverse backgrounds are manifested in the context of the constraints of professional accountability and working conditions. The study reveals these teachers' classroom norms and interactions are an outcome …
Mechanism of the impacts of older adults social participation on their health
Purpose: Against the background of population aging challenges in China, focusing on health, security, and social participation as core elements of positive aging, this study aims to formulate strategies for promoting the health of the older adults and reveal the pathways and trends of social participation in promoting health. Method: The study analyzed 1,015 randomly selected older adults individuals living at home in Beijing using household sur…
“Writing by oneself is too lonely”
Capturing Western educators’ perceptions of Chinese learners
Drawing upon interview data collected from six American professors who have taught in a Sino-US collaborative programme, this study explores these Western educators’ perceptions of their Chinese students. Adopting the theoretical lens of cultural non-essentialism, this study finds that these educators formed an appreciative and contextualized perception of Chinese students. They perceived Chinese students as individually different, respectful, op…
Exploring Tibetan residents’ everyday language practices in Danba county, Southwest China
In this case study, seventy Tibetan residents selected from two Tibetan villages in Danba county, Southwest China, were invited to participate in an investigation of their everyday use of Tibetan, standard Chinese, and English, as well as their expectations of future multilingual practices. It was found that there are intergenerational differences in the participants’ use of these languages. This paper, in the context of neoliberal ideology and r…
Unpacking digital-driven language management in a Chinese transnational company
In this exploratory case study, the details of language management in Company X’s translation service, which is going global, are fully examined and represented. The researchers utilized in-depth interviews to collect the data. Their findings regarding the driving/contributing factors relating to language management, the strategies employed, and the relevant effects are presented. It is concluded that this transnational company’s language managem…
Unpacking fluid linguistic landscape in a community coffeehouse in Hangzhou, East China
This paper enquires into the emergence of linguistic landscapes as cycles from fluid to frozen and fluid again. It is based on the first author’s ethnographic narratives of the appearance and disappearance of linguistic landscapes in a community coffeehouse in Hangzhou, East China. By moment analysis of the entanglements in everyday life that owners and customers share, we find that the meanings of the coffeehouse space are dynamically shaped by …
Examining language practices on linguistic landscapes of tourism in Xi’an, China
Aims and Objectives/Purpose/Research Questions: This paper draws on the framework of pride and profit to analyze language practices in the linguistic landscape of tourism in Xi’an, China. This study aims to answer (1) How are different languages used in the linguistic landscapes of tourism in Xi’an? and (2) How are the language practices on the tourism landscapes related to pride and profit? Design/Methodology/Approach: Visual ethnography is used…
Sociology (19 works) · China (15 works) · Political science (14 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (13 works) · Pedagogy (12 works) · Linguistics (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works)