their plans for the future, barriers they perceived to be preventing them from fulfilling their plans, and their initiatives in addressing the barriers.
This image of international business professionals guided Nan’s academic and extracurricular endeavours. He claimed to have stepped into the international business world. In order to support this claim, he concluded that he had acquired the qualifications for the banking and securities profession by saying 硬件方面的东西我感觉准备得差不多了 (Regarding the qualifications I feel I am almost well prepared) (Interview #5, 4 July, 2010)