International Journal of Education

This study took 161 students from a university in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region as research subjects and employed the questionnaire and semi-structured interview to investigate their cognition of Chinese stories, the primary challenges they currently face in "telling Chinas stories well" in English, and the influencing factors. The results indicate that: ① university students are relatively familiar with Chinese cultural stories and have a keen interest in "telling Chinas stories well," along with a strong sense of mission and responsibility to introduce Chinese culture to the world; ② the main challenges faced by university students in "telling Chinas stories well" include weak English language proficiency, inadequate narrative skills, a lack of mediation resources, and insufficient self-confidence; ③ in terms of influencing factors, these are mainly reflected in four aspects: cultural knowledge, language ability, audience awareness, and mediation resources. Finally, based on the mediation theory, this study offers some practical suggestions for the model of cultivating university students ability to "tell Chinas stories well" in English from three perspectives: object mediation, other-mediation, and self-discourse mediation.

Mediation Theory; university students; telling Chinas stories well; competency of introducing Chinese culture