Xi Wu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3701180 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Xi Wu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Xi |
| FAMILY NAME | Wu |
| SIGNATURE | WU X |
| AFFILIATIONS | Soochow University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6670-0905 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Quality and reliability of BPPV videos on TikTok and Bilibili
Background Short-video platforms increasingly provide health information, but content quality varies, and evidence on benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) videos remains limited.Objective To assess the quality and reliability of BPPV-related short videos on TikTok and Bilibili and examine home repositioning, maneuver–canal compatibility, and misleading information.Methods On 4 March 2026, we searched both platforms and included 135 videos …
Postgraduate international students’ cosmopolitan capital accumulation in transnational spaces
University-based learning experiences, social support, and the development of teaching motivation in student teachers
Human-Centric Composite Field Motion Planning for Ergonomics-Aware and Demonstration-Informed Human-Robot Collaboration
Human-robot collaboration (HRC) requires robot motions that are task-efficient, predictable, physically safe, and ergonomically compatible with human partners in shared workspaces. Existing methods often treat demonstration reproduction and ergonomic optimization separately, which may lead to motions that either follow demonstrated task geometry without sufficient comfort consideration or improve ergonomics at the expense of task fidelity. This p…
Paths to teaching
Navigating Chinese international students’ inquiry learning in a multilingual and multicultural environment
In the past few decades, inquiry learning, as a research-based learning approach, has been increasingly emphasised in developed Western countries. This study examined the inquiry learning experiences of 17 Chinese international students at their host universities in the USA, the UK, Australia, and Canada, along with their achievements and challenges. Through two rounds of one-on-one semi-structured interviews, this study found a close relationshi…
Dietary patterns and hypertension in Chinese adults
The association of dietary pattern with the risk of common chronic diseases in Shandong Province, China
Background Chronic diseases have emerged as a significant public health challenge, impacting the well-being of the Chinese populace, despite scant research exploring the influence of dietary factors on these conditions. This article aimed to investigate the dietary patterns of adult residents in Shandong Province, China, and explore the relationship between these dietary patterns and common chronic diseases. Methods We used data from the Total Di…
Fostering global competence in Chinese university students within a diverse international and multilingual context
Examining the contextualized cosmopolitan learning of Chinese preservice teachers through cosmopolitan engagement and reflexive thinking
Informed by contextualized “cosmopolitan learning”, a case study of a comparative and international education course at a prestigious Chinese university was used to examine the cosmopolitan learning of 29 preservice teachers, including their cosmopolitan engagements before and during higher education and their reflections on educational transformations and inequities brought by dominant global social imaginaries, discourses, and local conditions.…
“Chinese core, global trend”
Globalization has stimulated widespread reforms of traditional citizenship education. Regional sociopolitical and cultural circumstances substantially influence global citizenship education (GCE) discourse. A more in-depth examination of the recontextualization of GCE in educational institutions is required to comprehend its inner power tensions and potential dilemmas. This study investigates how GCE is recontextualized in China’s civics curricul…
Examining the after-school study burden of Chinese secondary school students following burden reduction policies
The study suggests that all stakeholders (policymakers, school administrators, teachers, parents, and students) collaborate in pursuing humanistic objectives in education, rather than being narrowly governed by the pragmatic social imaginary and related discourses. These stakeholders must engage in meaningful conversations and work together to create a humanistic educational environment, aiming to reduce after-school workload from school and othe…
Integrating metabolomics and network pharmacology to investigate Mu Jin Powder prevents ethanol-induced gastric ulcer in rats
Examining Chinese university students’ multilingual practices and critical reflections through cosmopolitan learning
Enactment of moral education
Examining cosmopolitan learning among Chinese university students through internationalisation at home
Internationalisation at home (IaH) has gained prominence in higher education, emphasising the cosmopolitan aspects of curricula, teaching, and learning. This case study, grounded in the concept of cosmopolitan learning as a sociological approach, focuses on three dimensions—cosmopolitan engagement, critical reflections on global and local issues, and ethical judgements—made by 23 Chinese university students participating in IaH at a prestigious C…
International students’ mobility and lives in transnational spaces
Recently, an increasing number of students have been seeking international education to accumulate cosmopolitan cultural and social capital and realise upward social mobility. In addition to this pragmatic dimension, international education also enables international students to acquire dedicated cosmopolitan dispositions, providing them opportunities to appreciate diverse cultures, values, and gain intercultural/translocal learning experiences. …
The acquisition of intercultural competence among international and domestic students in China through an internationalisation at home programme
Guided by a theoretical discussion on the effect of internationalisation at home (IaH) practices on students' acquisition of intercultural competence, we used reflexive journals and semi-structured interviews to examine 10 international and 20 domestic students' goals, progress, and challenges in their engagement in an IaH intercultural programme. Thematic data analysis revealed that challenges, including insufficient foreign language competence,…
Effects of individual attributes, family background, and school context on students’ global competence
Challenges and possibilities in English language learning of rural lower-class Chinese college students
Given the widened access to Chinese higher education, a large proportion of students studying at Chinese colleges come from rural lower-class families and encounter different challenges in English language learning. By using Bourdieu’s social theoretical lenses, this case study explores how the interplay of capital, habitus and social fields affected ten rural lower-class college students’ English language learning. This study finds that these st…
Does the combination of models with different explanatory variables improve tourism demand forecasting performance
The aim of this study is to assess whether combining econometric models with different explanatory variables can contribute to better tourism demand forecasts. Inbound tourism demand to the UK from seven leading markets is forecast, respectively, based on quarterly data using both individual and combination models. Causal econometric models that serve as constituents in combination take two specifications which are different in identified influen…
Becoming competent global educators
By investigating 28 pre-service teachers’ learning in a comparative and international education course at a Chinese university, this case study examined how to foster teacher students’ global competence, through their global engagement and critical dialogue with human capital discourse that focuses on measurement, competitiveness, and accountability for human capital building and quality. This study revealed that participants’ motives, efforts, a…
Multiple dimensions of private information in life insurance markets
Prediction and verification of the active ingredients and potential targets of Erhuang Quzhi Granules on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease based on network pharmacology
Reflexivity in multilingual and intercultural education
In recent years, a large amount of Chinese international students, from middle or upper-middle class families, began their international education in Canadian secondary schools, where critical thinking is the main educational goal and often determines students’ achievements. Guided by reflexivity in multilingual and intercultural education, this ethnographic study explores potential ways to foster Chinese international secondary school students’ …
Examining the influence of transnational discourses on Chinese international secondary school students’ academic learning
In recent years, increasing numbers of Chinese international secondary school students have come to study in Canada. Upon arriving in their international context, their academic studies are influenced by socio-economic and cultural forces circulating between the home and host spaces of China and Canada. This paper delves into the economic, cultural and social rationalities behind eleven Chinese international secondary school students’ distinct wa…
Anglo-Western international school teachers as global middle class
This exploratory study on the global middle class (GMC) examines three representative experiences of the tens of thousands of Anglo-Western international schoolteachers (ISTs), who teach in private, K-12, English-immersion international schools for extended periods of time. The notion of GMC provokes consideration of social class making and forms of belonging of professional and managerial service workers who are ‘middling actors’ in the flows of…
Reflexivity in multilingual and intercultural education
In recent years, a large amount of Chinese international students, from middle or upper-middle class families, began their international education in Canadian secondary schools, where critical thinking is the main educational goal and often determines students’ achievements. Guided by reflexivity in multilingual and intercultural education, this ethnographic study explores potential ways to foster Chinese international secondary school students’ …
Multi-home ownership and household portfolio choice in urban China
Challenges and possibilities in English language learning of rural lower-class Chinese college students
Given the widened access to Chinese higher education, a large proportion of students studying at Chinese colleges come from rural lower-class families and encounter different challenges in English language learning. By using Bourdieu’s social theoretical lenses, this case study explores how the interplay of capital, habitus and social fields affected ten rural lower-class college students’ English language learning. This study finds that these st…
Chinese international secondary school students as flexible citizens
Guided by the notion of ‘flexible citizenship’, as a strategy to accumulate and exchange different forms of capital across national borders, our ethnographic study followed eleven Chinese international secondary school students’ transnational lives. This paper is focused on how instrumental goals of flexible citizenship cover over the emotional and existential qualities of these youths’ lives. To orient this concern, we turn to Rizvi’s conception…
Effects of individual attributes, family background, and school context on students’ global competence
The Impact of the Covid-19 Crisis on Air Travel Demand
This paper applies a three-step framework to quantify COVID-19's impacts on China's domestic and international air travel demand and to evaluate how the impacts evolve from January 2020 to January 2022. Time series techniques and combination forecasting are tested to identify the best-performing model to generate baseline forecasts, with which actual demands are compared to assess the impact of COVID-19. The results demonstrate that during the pe…
Chinese international students in a Canadian private secondary school
This study employs the notion of ‘flexible citizenship,’ to examine how national and transnational forces and discursive logics mediate Chinese international secondary school students’ educational routes and life trajectories. It draws upon a larger ethnographic research programme that followed 11 Chinese students in a Canadian international secondary school across a period of 14 months. Our current findings affirm that neoliberal logics mediated…
Fostering Chinese preservice teachers’ global competence through inquiry learning in glocalised educational contexts
The acquisition of intercultural competence among international and domestic students in China through an internationalisation at home programme
Guided by a theoretical discussion on the effect of internationalisation at home (IaH) practices on students' acquisition of intercultural competence, we used reflexive journals and semi-structured interviews to examine 10 international and 20 domestic students' goals, progress, and challenges in their engagement in an IaH intercultural programme. Thematic data analysis revealed that challenges, including insufficient foreign language competence,…
Regional differences in awareness of tobacco advertising and promotion in China
The awareness of tobacco advertising and promotional activities was not homogeneous across the six Chinese cities, suggesting variations in the tobacco industry's activities and the diversity of implementing a central set of laws to restrict tobacco promotion. This study clearly demonstrates the need to work with the implementation agencies if national laws are to be properly enforced
Antitussive, expectorant and anti-inflammatory activities of different extracts from Exocarpium Citri grandis
Multi-home ownership and household portfolio choice in urban China
Chinese international students in a Canadian private secondary school
This study employs the notion of ‘flexible citizenship,’ to examine how national and transnational forces and discursive logics mediate Chinese international secondary school students’ educational routes and life trajectories. It draws upon a larger ethnographic research programme that followed 11 Chinese students in a Canadian international secondary school across a period of 14 months. Our current findings affirm that neoliberal logics mediated…
Anglo-Western international school teachers as global middle class
This exploratory study on the global middle class (GMC) examines three representative experiences of the tens of thousands of Anglo-Western international schoolteachers (ISTs), who teach in private, K-12, English-immersion international schools for extended periods of time. The notion of GMC provokes consideration of social class making and forms of belonging of professional and managerial service workers who are ‘middling actors’ in the flows of…
Examining the influence of transnational discourses on Chinese international secondary school students’ academic learning
In recent years, increasing numbers of Chinese international secondary school students have come to study in Canada. Upon arriving in their international context, their academic studies are influenced by socio-economic and cultural forces circulating between the home and host spaces of China and Canada. This paper delves into the economic, cultural and social rationalities behind eleven Chinese international secondary school students’ distinct wa…
Sex Difference in Comorbid Depression in First-Episode and Drug-Naive Patients With Schizophrenia
OBJECTIVE: Comorbid depression is common in schizophrenia, and sex differences are prominent in many aspects of schizophrenia. However, few studies have investigated sex difference in comorbid depression in schizophrenia. This large sample study aimed to investigate sex differences in first-episode drug-naive (FEDN) patients with schizophrenia comorbid major depressive episode (SZ-MDE). METHODS: A total of 996 FEDN patients with schizophrenia (47…
Upregulation of DGCR8, a Candidate Predisposing to Schizophrenia in Han Chinese, Contributes to Phenotypic Deficits and Neuronal Migration Delay
DiGeorge Syndrome Critical Region Gene 8 (DGCR8) is a key component of the microprocessor complex governing the maturation of most microRNAs, some of which participate in schizophrenia and neural development. Previous studies have found that the 22q11.2 locus, containing DGCR8, confers a risk of schizophrenia. However, the role of DGCR8 in schizophrenia and the early stage of neural development has remained unknown. In the present study, we try t…
Fostering Chinese preservice teachers’ global competence through inquiry learning in glocalised educational contexts
Chinese international secondary school students as flexible citizens
Guided by the notion of ‘flexible citizenship’, as a strategy to accumulate and exchange different forms of capital across national borders, our ethnographic study followed eleven Chinese international secondary school students’ transnational lives. This paper is focused on how instrumental goals of flexible citizenship cover over the emotional and existential qualities of these youths’ lives. To orient this concern, we turn to Rizvi’s conception…
Does the combination of models with different explanatory variables improve tourism demand forecasting performance
The aim of this study is to assess whether combining econometric models with different explanatory variables can contribute to better tourism demand forecasts. Inbound tourism demand to the UK from seven leading markets is forecast, respectively, based on quarterly data using both individual and combination models. Causal econometric models that serve as constituents in combination take two specifications which are different in identified influen…
Becoming competent global educators
By investigating 28 pre-service teachers’ learning in a comparative and international education course at a Chinese university, this case study examined how to foster teacher students’ global competence, through their global engagement and critical dialogue with human capital discourse that focuses on measurement, competitiveness, and accountability for human capital building and quality. This study revealed that participants’ motives, efforts, a…
Multiple dimensions of private information in life insurance markets
Prediction and verification of the active ingredients and potential targets of Erhuang Quzhi Granules on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease based on network pharmacology
Reflexivity in multilingual and intercultural education
In recent years, a large amount of Chinese international students, from middle or upper-middle class families, began their international education in Canadian secondary schools, where critical thinking is the main educational goal and often determines students’ achievements. Guided by reflexivity in multilingual and intercultural education, this ethnographic study explores potential ways to foster Chinese international secondary school students’ …
The Impact of the Covid-19 Crisis on Air Travel Demand
This paper applies a three-step framework to quantify COVID-19's impacts on China's domestic and international air travel demand and to evaluate how the impacts evolve from January 2020 to January 2022. Time series techniques and combination forecasting are tested to identify the best-performing model to generate baseline forecasts, with which actual demands are compared to assess the impact of COVID-19. The results demonstrate that during the pe…
Examining cosmopolitan learning among Chinese university students through internationalisation at home
Internationalisation at home (IaH) has gained prominence in higher education, emphasising the cosmopolitan aspects of curricula, teaching, and learning. This case study, grounded in the concept of cosmopolitan learning as a sociological approach, focuses on three dimensions—cosmopolitan engagement, critical reflections on global and local issues, and ethical judgements—made by 23 Chinese university students participating in IaH at a prestigious C…
International students’ mobility and lives in transnational spaces
Recently, an increasing number of students have been seeking international education to accumulate cosmopolitan cultural and social capital and realise upward social mobility. In addition to this pragmatic dimension, international education also enables international students to acquire dedicated cosmopolitan dispositions, providing them opportunities to appreciate diverse cultures, values, and gain intercultural/translocal learning experiences. …
The acquisition of intercultural competence among international and domestic students in China through an internationalisation at home programme
Guided by a theoretical discussion on the effect of internationalisation at home (IaH) practices on students' acquisition of intercultural competence, we used reflexive journals and semi-structured interviews to examine 10 international and 20 domestic students' goals, progress, and challenges in their engagement in an IaH intercultural programme. Thematic data analysis revealed that challenges, including insufficient foreign language competence,…
Effects of individual attributes, family background, and school context on students’ global competence
Challenges and possibilities in English language learning of rural lower-class Chinese college students
Given the widened access to Chinese higher education, a large proportion of students studying at Chinese colleges come from rural lower-class families and encounter different challenges in English language learning. By using Bourdieu’s social theoretical lenses, this case study explores how the interplay of capital, habitus and social fields affected ten rural lower-class college students’ English language learning. This study finds that these st…
Dietary patterns and hypertension in Chinese adults
The association of dietary pattern with the risk of common chronic diseases in Shandong Province, China
Background Chronic diseases have emerged as a significant public health challenge, impacting the well-being of the Chinese populace, despite scant research exploring the influence of dietary factors on these conditions. This article aimed to investigate the dietary patterns of adult residents in Shandong Province, China, and explore the relationship between these dietary patterns and common chronic diseases. Methods We used data from the Total Di…
Fostering global competence in Chinese university students within a diverse international and multilingual context
Examining the contextualized cosmopolitan learning of Chinese preservice teachers through cosmopolitan engagement and reflexive thinking
Informed by contextualized “cosmopolitan learning”, a case study of a comparative and international education course at a prestigious Chinese university was used to examine the cosmopolitan learning of 29 preservice teachers, including their cosmopolitan engagements before and during higher education and their reflections on educational transformations and inequities brought by dominant global social imaginaries, discourses, and local conditions.…
Global Education and Multiculturalism (19 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Political science (16 works) · Pedagogy (15 works) · Psychology (15 works) · International Student and Expatriate Challenges (12 works) · Higher education (10 works) · Geography (8 works) · International education (8 works) · Medicine (8 works)