A study on cultural differences between china and Portugal

• Autor(a) principal: Tang, Di
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/7164
• topic: Diferença cultural -- Cultural difference; Cross-culture management; Portugal; China; Motivation; Gestão intercultural; Motivação

Since the launch of the Chinese opening-up and reforming policies, they have been accelerating the development of China in all the fields. In the education field, the notable changes is more and more Chinese students choose to go abroad to pursue their higher education during the last several decades. Although Portugal is not one of the favorite destination countries as a choice of Chinese students, in recent years more and more Chinese students are coming to go to Portugal to continue their study. As a result, misunderstandings and conflicts occur when the students with different cultural backgrounds encounter. In an attempt to identify and help solve these conflicts caused by cultural differences, this thesis focuses on discovering cultural differences between China and Portugal from the perspective of the Chinese students that are studying in Portugal. The findings show that, from Chinese students’ view, the cross-cultural management systems of the Portuguese universities and institutes are satisfactory in general, but flawed in some aspects, for which, some suggestions are proposed by the Chinese students. On a deeper level, the individual motivations of Chinese studying in Portugal are explored, aiming at providing detailed data for cross-cultural management in higher education of Portugal.