Jinsheng Zhu
Biographic Data
| ID | 5544558 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jinsheng Zhu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jinsheng |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhu |
| SIGNATURE | ZHU J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Guilin Tourism University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0586-1291 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Psychological role stress among Chinese tourism and hospitality interns
Rock climbing as experiential pedagogy in outdoor education
PURPOSE: This study investigates the pedagogical value of rock climbing in Chinese higher education through the dual lenses of constructivist learning theory and the PERMA+IT framework of positive psychology in outdoor higher education studies. METHODS: Drawing on interactive observation, in-depth interviews, and case-based analysis, the research examines how simulated and outdoor climbing experiences shape students' emotional, cognitive, and rel…
Synergizing rural homestay spaces
The current study investigates the role of landscape design in homestay tourism through a transdisciplinary lens, examining how stakeholder interactions shape tourists' lodging experiences. Grounded in third space theory and the PERMA framework (Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, Accomplishment), the research employs a qualitative research approach, combining qualitative interviews with tourists, designers, and residents, and t…
Conflict and Coordination Mechanisms in Family Travel
The existing literature reveals a lack of research on conflict and coordination mechanisms in family travel. This study extends generational theory by qualitatively examining real travel experiences among three-generation Chinese families. The findings identify conflicts arising from differences in perspectives, decision-making, preferences, and health concerns. These conflicts are managed through five coordination mechanisms: compartmentalized c…
Culinary linguistic landscapes
Macau’s designation as a UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy emphasises its role as a multicultural hub, where culinary spaces function as symbolic sites of authenticity and attraction. This study examines Macau’s culinary linguistic landscapes, focusing on the signage, semiotic cues, and multilingual expressions that structure tourists’ encounters in street food districts such as Rua do Cunha. Drawing on linguistic landscape theory and a tri-dime…
Reflexivity in current themes in sociology of tourism
This study reviews the conceptual and epistemological tensions of the current sociology of tourism research. Adopting a narrative theoretical discussion approach, this paper synthesises the existing theoretical literature of recent decades in sociological theories in tourism. It focuses on themes with current theoretical trends: socio-economy, psychology, materiality, authenticity, and mobility. The research indicates that the field of sociology …
Myths, imagination and reality
Using China's March 3 Festival of the Zhuang ethnic people as a case, this study examines the process by which local knowledge is transformed into a tourist attraction. A new model of tourist attraction system has been proposed with the addition of the myths makers, which stresses the attributes of social construction for tourist attraction. Relying on primary data collected through in-depth interviews supplemented by online news and tourism revi…
Symbolic language landscapes in host–guest interaction in Chinese inbound tourism
The effect of pre-service music teachers’ professional identity on academic burnout
Chinese guardian mothers in Thailand
This study examines the growing trend of Chinese guardian mothers relocating to Chiang Mai, Thailand, for their children’s early childhood education. Through semi-structured interviews conducted from January 2019 to June 2023, involving 18 Chinese guardian mothers in Chiang Mai, the findings reveal three main factors. China’s increasing national prosperity has fueled a desire for early childhood education in globalized settings with English-mediu…
International Students’ Career Construction From Hospitality Internship
The curriculum-designed internship in hospitality management education has diverse impacts. Adopting the Career Construction Theory, this research explores how internships affect students’ career choices before, during, and after their hotel internships. The methodology of this research consists of semi-structured interviews, focus group discussions, and documentary investigations on international students’ internship diaries. Results show that t…
Chinese outbound tourists as international consumer in Northern Thailand—A dynamic mobility perspective
This article examines the mindsets of independent Chinese tourists in the context of the emerging dynamic mobility perspective. It investigates Chinese tourists’ travel impulses, cross-border flows, quality-of-life perceptions, and the meaning of living a mobile lifestyle. Through face-to-face interviews and drawing on narrative descriptions in social media and newsletters, the article draws findings relating to travel motivations, the reconstruc…
Chinese outbound tourism
Chinese outbound tourism has become of great interest to tourism scholars. This paper provides a brief review of the current theoretical discussion about modernity and alternative modernity and their connection to Chinese outbound tourism developments. The paper traces the progress of Chinese outbound tourism via the binary structure-agent approach. Its study integrates the institutional development of the Chinese tourism governing body over four…
The heritage of Chinese cities as seen through the gaze of zhonghua wenhua – ‘Chinese common knowledge’
The pursuit of modernization in cities all over China has at one level resulted in the disappearance of much built heritage; yet at another level, millennia-old elements of urban traditions are as visibly present in contemporary cities as they were centuries ago. This visibility, however, is not always apparent to non-Chinese observers. To reach an understanding of this phenomenon, it is suggested that the normative ‘western’ approach to heritage…
Patient-centered Medical Home Capability and Clinical Performance in HRSA-supported Health Centers
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the relationship between Patient-centered Medical Home (PCMH) model adoption in health centers (HCs) and clinical performance measures and to determine if adoption of PCMH characteristics is associated with better clinical performance. RESEARCH DESIGN: Data came from the Health Resources and Services Administration's 2009 Uniform Data System and the 2009 Commonwealth Fund National Survey of Federally Qualified Health Cente…
Chronic conditions and medical expenditures among non-institutionalized adults in the United States
The high costs associated with having one or more chronic conditions indicates a need for more robust interventions to target population groups who are most at risk
Insurance, Racial/Ethnic, SES-Related Disparities in Quality of Care Among US Adults with Diabetes
Diabetes-related quality improvement initiatives are typically aimed at improving outcomes and reducing complications. Studies have found that disparities in quality persist for certain racial/ethnic and socioeconomically disadvantaged groups; however, results are mixed with regard to insurance-based differences. The purpose of this study is to investigate the independent associations between type of health insurance coverage, race/ethnicity, and…
Race/Ethnicity, insurance, income and access to care
Interventions to expand insurance coverage and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act are expected to contribute to reducing disparities in access to care. However, to further improve access to care, emphasis must be placed on those with poorer health status and functional limitations
Primary Care and Public Health Activities in Select US Health Centers
Objectives. We examined primary care and public health activities among federally funded health centers, to better understand their successes, the barriers encountered, and the lessons learned. Methods. We used qualitative and quantitative methods to collect data from 9 health centers, stratified by administrative division, urban–rural location, and race/ethnicity of patients served. Descriptive data on patient and institutional characteristics c…
Chinese outbound tourism
Chinese outbound tourism has become of great interest to tourism scholars. This paper provides a brief review of the current theoretical discussion about modernity and alternative modernity and their connection to Chinese outbound tourism developments. The paper traces the progress of Chinese outbound tourism via the binary structure-agent approach. Its study integrates the institutional development of the Chinese tourism governing body over four…
The heritage of Chinese cities as seen through the gaze of zhonghua wenhua – ‘Chinese common knowledge’
The pursuit of modernization in cities all over China has at one level resulted in the disappearance of much built heritage; yet at another level, millennia-old elements of urban traditions are as visibly present in contemporary cities as they were centuries ago. This visibility, however, is not always apparent to non-Chinese observers. To reach an understanding of this phenomenon, it is suggested that the normative ‘western’ approach to heritage…
Symbolic language landscapes in host–guest interaction in Chinese inbound tourism
Chinese outbound tourists as international consumer in Northern Thailand—A dynamic mobility perspective
This article examines the mindsets of independent Chinese tourists in the context of the emerging dynamic mobility perspective. It investigates Chinese tourists’ travel impulses, cross-border flows, quality-of-life perceptions, and the meaning of living a mobile lifestyle. Through face-to-face interviews and drawing on narrative descriptions in social media and newsletters, the article draws findings relating to travel motivations, the reconstruc…
Primary Care and Public Health Activities in Select US Health Centers
Objectives. We examined primary care and public health activities among federally funded health centers, to better understand their successes, the barriers encountered, and the lessons learned. Methods. We used qualitative and quantitative methods to collect data from 9 health centers, stratified by administrative division, urban–rural location, and race/ethnicity of patients served. Descriptive data on patient and institutional characteristics c…
Primary Care and Public Health Activities in Select US Health Centers
Objectives. We examined primary care and public health activities among federally funded health centers, to better understand their successes, the barriers encountered, and the lessons learned. Methods. We used qualitative and quantitative methods to collect data from 9 health centers, stratified by administrative division, urban–rural location, and race/ethnicity of patients served. Descriptive data on patient and institutional characteristics c…
Insurance, Racial/Ethnic, SES-Related Disparities in Quality of Care Among US Adults with Diabetes
Diabetes-related quality improvement initiatives are typically aimed at improving outcomes and reducing complications. Studies have found that disparities in quality persist for certain racial/ethnic and socioeconomically disadvantaged groups; however, results are mixed with regard to insurance-based differences. The purpose of this study is to investigate the independent associations between type of health insurance coverage, race/ethnicity, and…
Race/Ethnicity, insurance, income and access to care
Interventions to expand insurance coverage and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act are expected to contribute to reducing disparities in access to care. However, to further improve access to care, emphasis must be placed on those with poorer health status and functional limitations
Chronic conditions and medical expenditures among non-institutionalized adults in the United States
The high costs associated with having one or more chronic conditions indicates a need for more robust interventions to target population groups who are most at risk
Patient-centered Medical Home Capability and Clinical Performance in HRSA-supported Health Centers
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the relationship between Patient-centered Medical Home (PCMH) model adoption in health centers (HCs) and clinical performance measures and to determine if adoption of PCMH characteristics is associated with better clinical performance. RESEARCH DESIGN: Data came from the Health Resources and Services Administration's 2009 Uniform Data System and the 2009 Commonwealth Fund National Survey of Federally Qualified Health Cente…
The heritage of Chinese cities as seen through the gaze of zhonghua wenhua – ‘Chinese common knowledge’
The pursuit of modernization in cities all over China has at one level resulted in the disappearance of much built heritage; yet at another level, millennia-old elements of urban traditions are as visibly present in contemporary cities as they were centuries ago. This visibility, however, is not always apparent to non-Chinese observers. To reach an understanding of this phenomenon, it is suggested that the normative ‘western’ approach to heritage…
Chinese outbound tourists as international consumer in Northern Thailand—A dynamic mobility perspective
This article examines the mindsets of independent Chinese tourists in the context of the emerging dynamic mobility perspective. It investigates Chinese tourists’ travel impulses, cross-border flows, quality-of-life perceptions, and the meaning of living a mobile lifestyle. Through face-to-face interviews and drawing on narrative descriptions in social media and newsletters, the article draws findings relating to travel motivations, the reconstruc…
Chinese outbound tourism
Chinese outbound tourism has become of great interest to tourism scholars. This paper provides a brief review of the current theoretical discussion about modernity and alternative modernity and their connection to Chinese outbound tourism developments. The paper traces the progress of Chinese outbound tourism via the binary structure-agent approach. Its study integrates the institutional development of the Chinese tourism governing body over four…
International Students’ Career Construction From Hospitality Internship
The curriculum-designed internship in hospitality management education has diverse impacts. Adopting the Career Construction Theory, this research explores how internships affect students’ career choices before, during, and after their hotel internships. The methodology of this research consists of semi-structured interviews, focus group discussions, and documentary investigations on international students’ internship diaries. Results show that t…
The effect of pre-service music teachers’ professional identity on academic burnout
Chinese guardian mothers in Thailand
This study examines the growing trend of Chinese guardian mothers relocating to Chiang Mai, Thailand, for their children’s early childhood education. Through semi-structured interviews conducted from January 2019 to June 2023, involving 18 Chinese guardian mothers in Chiang Mai, the findings reveal three main factors. China’s increasing national prosperity has fueled a desire for early childhood education in globalized settings with English-mediu…
Reflexivity in current themes in sociology of tourism
This study reviews the conceptual and epistemological tensions of the current sociology of tourism research. Adopting a narrative theoretical discussion approach, this paper synthesises the existing theoretical literature of recent decades in sociological theories in tourism. It focuses on themes with current theoretical trends: socio-economy, psychology, materiality, authenticity, and mobility. The research indicates that the field of sociology …
Myths, imagination and reality
Using China's March 3 Festival of the Zhuang ethnic people as a case, this study examines the process by which local knowledge is transformed into a tourist attraction. A new model of tourist attraction system has been proposed with the addition of the myths makers, which stresses the attributes of social construction for tourist attraction. Relying on primary data collected through in-depth interviews supplemented by online news and tourism revi…
Symbolic language landscapes in host–guest interaction in Chinese inbound tourism
Psychological role stress among Chinese tourism and hospitality interns
Rock climbing as experiential pedagogy in outdoor education
PURPOSE: This study investigates the pedagogical value of rock climbing in Chinese higher education through the dual lenses of constructivist learning theory and the PERMA+IT framework of positive psychology in outdoor higher education studies. METHODS: Drawing on interactive observation, in-depth interviews, and case-based analysis, the research examines how simulated and outdoor climbing experiences shape students' emotional, cognitive, and rel…
Synergizing rural homestay spaces
The current study investigates the role of landscape design in homestay tourism through a transdisciplinary lens, examining how stakeholder interactions shape tourists' lodging experiences. Grounded in third space theory and the PERMA framework (Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, Accomplishment), the research employs a qualitative research approach, combining qualitative interviews with tourists, designers, and residents, and t…
Conflict and Coordination Mechanisms in Family Travel
The existing literature reveals a lack of research on conflict and coordination mechanisms in family travel. This study extends generational theory by qualitatively examining real travel experiences among three-generation Chinese families. The findings identify conflicts arising from differences in perspectives, decision-making, preferences, and health concerns. These conflicts are managed through five coordination mechanisms: compartmentalized c…
Culinary linguistic landscapes
Macau’s designation as a UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy emphasises its role as a multicultural hub, where culinary spaces function as symbolic sites of authenticity and attraction. This study examines Macau’s culinary linguistic landscapes, focusing on the signage, semiotic cues, and multilingual expressions that structure tourists’ encounters in street food districts such as Rua do Cunha. Drawing on linguistic landscape theory and a tri-dime…
Political science (8 works) · Tourism (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Health care (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Healthcare Policy and Management (4 works) · Primary Care and Health Outcomes (4 works) · Public health (4 works)