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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BUSINESS COMMUNICATION
卷 58, 期 3, 页码 410-429出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/2329488417747598
关键词
resilience; chengyu; career; Chinese Post80s; organizational communication
The study explores how the Post80s generation in China reconstruct their careers in the face of challenges by drawing on traditional Chinese idioms to build resilience. This highlights the importance of cultural and generational discourses in mobilizing agency for resilience.
The combined forces of China's reforms, resurgent traditional values, and problematic labor market have led the Chinese Post80s generation to reconstruct their careers. Drawing on 33 in-depth interviews, this study examines how Post80s professionals communicatively constitute resilience as they utilize and transform meanings of chengyu ((sic)(sic), Chinese four-word idiom encapsulating shared values). Guided by chengyu, Post80s construct resilience processes from temporal (past-present-future), relational (self-other-collective), and introspective perspectives (passion-practice). As discursive cultural resources of resilience, chengyu legitimize choices, frame actions, inspire ways of managing change and expectations, and offer comfort in difficult times. This study expands resilience research to a non-Western context and highlights how cultural and generational discourses can mobilize agency in the constitution of resilience. Findings offer practical implications in promoting and cultivating resilience.
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