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Current citizenship studies are faced with a danger of "concept stretching" as there are various definitions of it. To avoid concept stretching, we have to distinguish the conceptual connotation and denotation of citizenship. Scholars have come up with various conceptualization of citizenship because each of them has included different contextual factors into the work of conceptualization. Therefore, when conceptualizing citizenship, we need to strictly distinguish the conceptual core and contextual factors,and exclude the contextual factors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]