ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to summarize participants' views of their environment at home and at work and to further examine the ways in which the suggestions of a shift in personal identity. The vast majority of participants with work experience had been employed in the private sector: in hotels or international companies, which acted as the financial and environmental catalyst which brought them to Harmony. The chapter shows that more than half the students at the college were women, unusual in conventional Chinese higher education. It introduces a number of the issues that confront women in work and in education in the country. These issues suggest a series of implications for the participants and for the role of international education as a factor in Chinese society. In addition, weaving into these themes, is our underlying interest in the gender dynamics that existed for the participants both in education and work.
