Xing Xu
Biographic Data
| ID | 5904005 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Xing Xu |
| GIVEN NAMES | |
| FAMILY NAME | Xu |
| SIGNATURE | XU X |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sichuan International Studies University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0706-2338 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mapping Global Research on International Student Agency: A Scientometric Review
In light of the paradigm shift in the scholarship of international students that increasingly emphasizes students’ agentic participation, the topic of international student agency has attracted increasing attention. This scientometric paper outlines the research intellectual map, including an overview of publications, major contributors, and research foci, using a combination of CiteSpace and Latent Dirichlet Allocation topic modeling between 200…
Mapping Australia–China research collaboration in the field of education (2015–2024)
International research collaboration has received sustained scholarly attention, particularly due to its potential to drive innovation through cross-cultural research partnerships and the growing complexity of global challenges that necessitate cross-border knowledge production. However, existing literature has predominantly focused on collaborations within STEM fields, with limited attention to country-pair analyses, especially among nations whe…
Merit, metrics, and morality: A qualitative study of academic recruitment discourses in top-tier Chinese universities
Despite extensive research on academic employment, most studies focus on academic careers after hiring. Academic job advertisements as key texts that shape access to academic positions remain underexplored, particularly outside Western contexts. Existing studies largely rely on large-sample quantitative analyses of Western job advertisements. Addressing this gap, this study employs qualitative analysis to examine how top-tier Chinese universities…
“Don't Give up the Power to Think!”: A Case Study of English Language Teachers' AI Ethics and AI ‐Induced Emotions
As artificial intelligence (AI) tools become increasingly embedded in education, concerns about their ethical consequences have intensified. Risks such as plagiarism and the potential erosion of students' critical thinking skills underscore the complexity of integrating AI responsibly. Ensuring the ethical use of these technologies is therefore a central challenge for AI in Education (AIED). Yet, how in‐service teachers' emotional responses inter…
Intercultural change through mobility: How study abroad in the Indo-Pacific reshapes Australian students’ perceptions of international students
Study abroad has gained significant momentum over the past two decades, widely recognised for its benefits to students, universities, and both home and host countries. However, most existing research focuses on individual student development, with limited attention to the broader relational impacts, particularly on domestic study-abroad students' perceptions of international peers. This study addresses that gap by examining how Australian student…
Integrating clinical proxies and metabolic data identifies and distinguishes high-risk depression subtypes in a real-world first-hospitalization cohort
In first-hospitalized patients, RD is associated with adverse metabolic markers, while TRD is characterized by clinical indicators of failed adequate treatment and high acute risk. A prolonged illness duration in first-episode patients may signal significant treatment delay. An integrated assessment of these accessible clinical and metabolic proxies could facilitate early risk stratification in routine care
Mapping global research on international students’ cross-cultural adaptation: A structural topic modelling review
Artificial intelligence, green innovation efficiency, and public health benefits: Evidence from China’s pilot zones with a DID approach
Introduction: China has established Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Development Pilot Zones (AIDP) to promote industrial upgrading and digital transformation. This study evaluates whether these AI oriented policies enhance firm-level green innovation efficiency (GIE) and generate potential environmental and health benefits. Methods: Using panel data of Chinese firms from 2011 to 2022, we employed a difference-in-differences (DID) design ex…
Using Websites to Become Global Players in International Education: Insights from a Chinese University
Despite the emerging scholarship on efforts of (semi)peripheral countries to take up internationalization of higher education (HE), little attention has been paid to how these universities market international education to prospective students on their websites. These websites are a multimodal space marketing internationalization that has been rarely investigated from a diachronic perspective. This study focuses on a Chinese university and uses a…
A New Specimen of the Tritylodontid Bienotheroides zigongensis (Cynodontia, Mammaliamorpha) from the Wucaiwan Area of Xinjiang, China, and Phylogeny of Tritylodontidae
Tritylodontidae is a Mesozoic group of small to medium-sized mammaliamorph cynodonts with cosmopolitan geographic distribution and characterized by possessing three mesiodistal rows of cusps in each of their upper postcanine teeth and two rows in the lower postcanines. Abundant tritylodontid materials have been discovered in Sichuan, Xinjiang, Yunnan, and other localities in China since 1938, but detailed description of their morphologies has bee…
An Interpretation of the Urban Digital Economy Effecting Manufacturing Innovation Efficiency
This study analyzes the effect of urban digital economy (UDE) development on manufacturing innovation efficiency from the perspectives of urban industrial agglomeration and government subsidies, using mixed panel data of Chinese cities and A-share manufacturing listed companies from 2011 to 2019. This study reveals the following findings: (1) There is a threshold effect of government subsidies and industrial agglomeration on the impact of UDE on …
The moderating role of academic achievement attribution in shaping the impact of negative life events on adolescent problem behaviors and school dropout tendency
This study explores how negative life events influence dropout tendencies through internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors, with a particular focus on the moderating effect of academic achievement attribution tendencies on the relationship between negative life events and internal/external problem behaviors. The study used structural equation modeling to analyze a sample of 1,012 students from middle and vocational high schools. The resu…
Between Sang subculture and self-formation: An investigation into ‘ Haifei’ in China
Despite the booming reverse student mobility in international higher education, pertinent literature is limited due to a narrow focus on the employability and employment of returning graduates, without considering their holistic lived experience in the home context that is subjected to shaping forces of grand narratives that emerge alongside shifting sociohistorical discourses. Shedding light on the emerging ‘Haifei,’ or ‘overseas returning waste…
A Sociomaterial Investigation into Chinese International Students’ Navigation of a Doctoral Trajectory During Covid-19
Despite a vast body of scholarship delving into international students’ educational experience during the COVID-19 pandemic, little is known about the doctoral group's perception from a sociomaterial perspective. Utilizing a group of Chinese international doctoral students while drawing on semi-structured interviews, the article unpacks what and how matter and human forces are entangled with one another as bricolages to shape a disrupted doctoral…
Understanding Government-Funded Doctoral Students’ Non-Degree International Exchange Experiences: Evidence from China
China has actively internationalized its doctoral education by funding students to study abroad via the China Scholarship Council. Nevertheless, little is known about the scholarship recipients’ perceptions of their study sojourn, especially those on short-term exchange programs. Based on 100 visiting doctoral students’ study reports, the study employed a sentiment analysis and was guided by the ecological system theory to untangle how this cohor…
(De)construction of stigma attached to global South-South student mobility: Voices from Chinese doctoral students in Malaysia
Despite an emerging mobility of Chinese doctoral students to Malaysia, little is known about how this cohort perceives their study sojourn, especially in relation to a salient yet under-researched discourse widely circulating in the Chinese media that calls into question doctorates obtained from Southeast Asian universities. Utilizing a qualitative method based on 10 Chinese doctoral students, guided by a theoretical framework incorporating White…
Between decolonization and recolonization: Investigating Chinese doctoral students in Malaysia as a case of global South-South student mobility
Sino-US Competition for Political Influence in Africa: Can Bilateral Aid Buy UN Votes
How international short-term mobility experience affects full-degree abroad experience: Insights from Chinese students
Despite an extensive body of literature scrutinising international students’ short-term and long-term mobility experiences, little is known about the connection between the two. To address this gap, this study looks into the perception of a group of Chinese international students on how participation in their short-term mobility (STM) experience affects their navigation of subsequent full-degree experiences. Based on a qualitative investigation i…
An autoethnography of an international doctoral student’s multidimensional identity construction
There is a scarcity of scholarship that sheds light on international doctoral students’ identity construction in quotidian encounters beyond the formal curriculum. In this autoethnographic study, based on my diary entries, via a socio-constructivist lens, I teased out my multidimensional identity construction by referring to situations, activities and relations embedded in daily experiences during my overseas study sojourn. My autoethnography rev…
A Qualitative Investigation Into Chinese International Doctoral Students’ Navigation of a Disrupted Study Trajectory During Covid-19
This study delves into emic perceptions of Chinese international doctoral students’ navigation of a disrupted study trajectory during the 2019 coronavirus pandemic. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with students and the conceptual framework of bioecological systems theory and needs-response agency, the article reveals a nuanced picture of how activities, relations and roles nested in a PhD study trajectory are impacted by and respond to the …
The nexus between natural disasters, supply chains and trade—Revisiting the role of preferential trade agreement s in disaster risk reduction
Using data from 42 countries from the years 2000–2014, this study presents a gravity model to understand the impacts of natural disasters on global value chain (GVC) participation and to assess whether a country's preferential trade agreement (PTA) with its trading partners and the ‘depth’ of those agreements could cushion or would instead magnify the GVC effects of natural disasters. Despite strong evidence of the positive association between pa…
International education through a bioecological development lens – a case study of Chinese doctoral students in Australia
This study addresses the issue of international education through a human development lens. Using a group of Chinese doctoral students in Australia as a case study, it adopts volunteer-employed photography (VEP) to tease out the negative and positive forces that influence students’ developmental trajectories during their doctoral education. Analyzing within the framework of Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological systems theory, this study reveals that th…
The enactment of agency in international academic mobility: A case of Chinese female PhD students in Australia
A Probe Into Chinese Doctoral Students’ Researcher Identity: A Volunteer-Employed Photography Study
Researcher identity has been widely studied as central to doctoral education. However, little is known about students’ emic conceptualization of what represents researcher identity based on their lived experience. Using a sample of 24 Chinese doctoral students in Australia, this study adopts volunteer-employed photography (VEP) to facilitate the participants’ delineation of their researcher identity. Findings reveal that researcher identity is in…
Exploring the Logic of Name Changes and Identity Construction: A Reflective Self-Narration of Assimilation Expectations
This paper derives largely from my own experience during two international sojourns as a case study to tease out the salient elements of the dynamic processes involved in the exchange of my Chinese name Xing for an arbitrary English counterpart Helen, and then followed by reverting to Xing again. Contrary to previous studies that construe the issues of international students reconstructing their ethnic names into English ones as an innocuous expr…
WeChat Usernames: An Exploratory Study of Users’ Selection Practices
As one of the most popular social networking applications in China, WeChat has recently attracted scholarly attention. To date, these studies have tended to concentrate on how it has been used as a social networking and emerging business model. However, little is known about the practices users follow when selecting usernames on WeChat. Using an onomastic lens, this study addresses this gap by examining 501 WeChat usernames. With data collected t…
The Braincase Anatomy of the Late Cretaceous Dinosaur Alioramus (Theropoda: (Tyrannosauroidea)
The late Cretaceous tyrannosaurid Alioramus altai is known from a single specimen whose articulated braincase exhibits a nearly unique combination of preservational quality, subadult stage of growth, and morphological complexity. We use a detailed physical preparation combined with high-resolution computed tomography to provide an expanded description of this braincase that includes details of the neurocranium and its dermal roof, pneumatic reces…
Focus on vulnerable populations and promoting equity in health service utilization ––an analysis of visitor characteristics and service utilization of the Chinese community health service
The CHIs in China appears to fulfill the public health target of uptake by vulnerable populations, and may play an important role in promoting equity in health service utilization. However, services for children and the elderly should be strengthened
Exploring the Logic of Name Changes and Identity Construction: A Reflective Self-Narration of Assimilation Expectations
This paper derives largely from my own experience during two international sojourns as a case study to tease out the salient elements of the dynamic processes involved in the exchange of my Chinese name Xing for an arbitrary English counterpart Helen, and then followed by reverting to Xing again. Contrary to previous studies that construe the issues of international students reconstructing their ethnic names into English ones as an innocuous expr…
Is “Beautiful Female Something” Symbolic Capital or Symbolic Violence? That Is a Question
The rationale for this article derives from a personal anecdote embedded within the challenging discourse of endeavoring to identify and attach meaning to the concept of a “beautiful female something.” The focused analysis provided here about this stereotypical label reveals a dimension of patriarchal chauvinism that directs the way in which the interpretation of a “beautiful female something” can become socioculturally and universally entrenched…
Dissipation Behavior of Three Fungicides during the Industrial Processing of Paeoniae Radix Alba and Associated Processing Factors
Before being administered as medicinal products, Chinese herbal medicines (CHMs) must be processed and decocted for human consumption. While the presence of pesticide residues in CHMs is a major concern, pesticide dissipation behavior during CHM processing has rarely been reported. In this study, the dissipation of three pesticide residues in the CHM Paeoniae Radix Alba (PRA) was investigated during each step of industrial processing. The boiling…
Pennaraptoran Theropod Dinosaurs Past Progress and New Frontiers
Pittman, Michael, Xu, Xing (2020): Pennaraptoran Theropod Dinosaurs Past Progress And New Frontiers. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2020 (440): 1-353, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090.440.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0090.440.1.1
WeChat Usernames: An Exploratory Study of Users’ Selection Practices
As one of the most popular social networking applications in China, WeChat has recently attracted scholarly attention. To date, these studies have tended to concentrate on how it has been used as a social networking and emerging business model. However, little is known about the practices users follow when selecting usernames on WeChat. Using an onomastic lens, this study addresses this gap by examining 501 WeChat usernames. With data collected t…
International education through a bioecological development lens – a case study of Chinese doctoral students in Australia
This study addresses the issue of international education through a human development lens. Using a group of Chinese doctoral students in Australia as a case study, it adopts volunteer-employed photography (VEP) to tease out the negative and positive forces that influence students’ developmental trajectories during their doctoral education. Analyzing within the framework of Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological systems theory, this study reveals that th…
The enactment of agency in international academic mobility: A case of Chinese female PhD students in Australia
A Probe Into Chinese Doctoral Students’ Researcher Identity: A Volunteer-Employed Photography Study
Researcher identity has been widely studied as central to doctoral education. However, little is known about students’ emic conceptualization of what represents researcher identity based on their lived experience. Using a sample of 24 Chinese doctoral students in Australia, this study adopts volunteer-employed photography (VEP) to facilitate the participants’ delineation of their researcher identity. Findings reveal that researcher identity is in…
A Qualitative Investigation Into Chinese International Doctoral Students’ Navigation of a Disrupted Study Trajectory During Covid-19
This study delves into emic perceptions of Chinese international doctoral students’ navigation of a disrupted study trajectory during the 2019 coronavirus pandemic. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with students and the conceptual framework of bioecological systems theory and needs-response agency, the article reveals a nuanced picture of how activities, relations and roles nested in a PhD study trajectory are impacted by and respond to the …
The nexus between natural disasters, supply chains and trade—Revisiting the role of preferential trade agreement s in disaster risk reduction
Using data from 42 countries from the years 2000–2014, this study presents a gravity model to understand the impacts of natural disasters on global value chain (GVC) participation and to assess whether a country's preferential trade agreement (PTA) with its trading partners and the ‘depth’ of those agreements could cushion or would instead magnify the GVC effects of natural disasters. Despite strong evidence of the positive association between pa…
How international short-term mobility experience affects full-degree abroad experience: Insights from Chinese students
Despite an extensive body of literature scrutinising international students’ short-term and long-term mobility experiences, little is known about the connection between the two. To address this gap, this study looks into the perception of a group of Chinese international students on how participation in their short-term mobility (STM) experience affects their navigation of subsequent full-degree experiences. Based on a qualitative investigation i…
An autoethnography of an international doctoral student’s multidimensional identity construction
There is a scarcity of scholarship that sheds light on international doctoral students’ identity construction in quotidian encounters beyond the formal curriculum. In this autoethnographic study, based on my diary entries, via a socio-constructivist lens, I teased out my multidimensional identity construction by referring to situations, activities and relations embedded in daily experiences during my overseas study sojourn. My autoethnography rev…
A Sociomaterial Investigation into Chinese International Students’ Navigation of a Doctoral Trajectory During Covid-19
Despite a vast body of scholarship delving into international students’ educational experience during the COVID-19 pandemic, little is known about the doctoral group's perception from a sociomaterial perspective. Utilizing a group of Chinese international doctoral students while drawing on semi-structured interviews, the article unpacks what and how matter and human forces are entangled with one another as bricolages to shape a disrupted doctoral…
Understanding Government-Funded Doctoral Students’ Non-Degree International Exchange Experiences: Evidence from China
China has actively internationalized its doctoral education by funding students to study abroad via the China Scholarship Council. Nevertheless, little is known about the scholarship recipients’ perceptions of their study sojourn, especially those on short-term exchange programs. Based on 100 visiting doctoral students’ study reports, the study employed a sentiment analysis and was guided by the ecological system theory to untangle how this cohor…
(De)construction of stigma attached to global South-South student mobility: Voices from Chinese doctoral students in Malaysia
Despite an emerging mobility of Chinese doctoral students to Malaysia, little is known about how this cohort perceives their study sojourn, especially in relation to a salient yet under-researched discourse widely circulating in the Chinese media that calls into question doctorates obtained from Southeast Asian universities. Utilizing a qualitative method based on 10 Chinese doctoral students, guided by a theoretical framework incorporating White…
Between decolonization and recolonization: Investigating Chinese doctoral students in Malaysia as a case of global South-South student mobility
Sino-US Competition for Political Influence in Africa: Can Bilateral Aid Buy UN Votes
Artificial intelligence, green innovation efficiency, and public health benefits: Evidence from China’s pilot zones with a DID approach
Introduction: China has established Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Development Pilot Zones (AIDP) to promote industrial upgrading and digital transformation. This study evaluates whether these AI oriented policies enhance firm-level green innovation efficiency (GIE) and generate potential environmental and health benefits. Methods: Using panel data of Chinese firms from 2011 to 2022, we employed a difference-in-differences (DID) design ex…
Using Websites to Become Global Players in International Education: Insights from a Chinese University
Despite the emerging scholarship on efforts of (semi)peripheral countries to take up internationalization of higher education (HE), little attention has been paid to how these universities market international education to prospective students on their websites. These websites are a multimodal space marketing internationalization that has been rarely investigated from a diachronic perspective. This study focuses on a Chinese university and uses a…
A New Specimen of the Tritylodontid Bienotheroides zigongensis (Cynodontia, Mammaliamorpha) from the Wucaiwan Area of Xinjiang, China, and Phylogeny of Tritylodontidae
Tritylodontidae is a Mesozoic group of small to medium-sized mammaliamorph cynodonts with cosmopolitan geographic distribution and characterized by possessing three mesiodistal rows of cusps in each of their upper postcanine teeth and two rows in the lower postcanines. Abundant tritylodontid materials have been discovered in Sichuan, Xinjiang, Yunnan, and other localities in China since 1938, but detailed description of their morphologies has bee…
An Interpretation of the Urban Digital Economy Effecting Manufacturing Innovation Efficiency
This study analyzes the effect of urban digital economy (UDE) development on manufacturing innovation efficiency from the perspectives of urban industrial agglomeration and government subsidies, using mixed panel data of Chinese cities and A-share manufacturing listed companies from 2011 to 2019. This study reveals the following findings: (1) There is a threshold effect of government subsidies and industrial agglomeration on the impact of UDE on …
The moderating role of academic achievement attribution in shaping the impact of negative life events on adolescent problem behaviors and school dropout tendency
This study explores how negative life events influence dropout tendencies through internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors, with a particular focus on the moderating effect of academic achievement attribution tendencies on the relationship between negative life events and internal/external problem behaviors. The study used structural equation modeling to analyze a sample of 1,012 students from middle and vocational high schools. The resu…
Between Sang subculture and self-formation: An investigation into ‘ Haifei’ in China
Despite the booming reverse student mobility in international higher education, pertinent literature is limited due to a narrow focus on the employability and employment of returning graduates, without considering their holistic lived experience in the home context that is subjected to shaping forces of grand narratives that emerge alongside shifting sociohistorical discourses. Shedding light on the emerging ‘Haifei,’ or ‘overseas returning waste…
Political science (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Higher Education Governance and Development (11 works) · Higher education (10 works) · Pedagogy (10 works) · International Student and Expatriate Challenges (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Business (5 works)