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In late 2003, having just begun my PhD program, I travelled to Beijing to undertake nine months of full-time language study. It was the second time I had lived in China. I brought with me the requisite home comforts, some reading material, and what I thought were the beginnings of my PhD topic. But my experiences during this period of language study not only provided me with a better grasp of the Chinese language, they also pointed my research in an entirely new direction. As a young woman undertaking a PhD program, I soon found that my identity and status was something of a curiosity -…mehr

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In late 2003, having just begun my PhD program, I travelled to Beijing to undertake nine months of full-time language study. It was the second time I had lived in China. I brought with me the requisite home comforts, some reading material, and what I thought were the beginnings of my PhD topic. But my experiences during this period of language study not only provided me with a better grasp of the Chinese language, they also pointed my research in an entirely new direction. As a young woman undertaking a PhD program, I soon found that my identity and status was something of a curiosity - perhaps even something of a concern. Almost every time that someone I met asked me what I did in my home country, and I told them that I was doing my PhD, they seemed perturbed. "Don't you want to get married?", people asked. "Oh, you're one of the Third Sex", they would say knowingly.
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