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Intercultural Communication with China

Beyond (Reverse) Essentialism and Culturalism?

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Editors:
  1. Fred Dervin

    1. Department of Teacher Education, University of Helsinki Department of Teacher Education, Helsinki, Finland

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  2. Regis Machart

    1. Department of Modern Languages, Universiti Putra Malaysia Department of Modern Languages, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia

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  • Helps readers to reflect critically on intercultural encounters between China and the ‘West’
  • Provides readers with interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological tools to work on interculturality
  • Solves coherently and systematically major issues related to essentialism and culturalism
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Encounters between East and West (EEWIP)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Fred Dervin
    Pages 1-8

  3. Hopeful Disappointment: Cultural Morphology and the Relation Between China and Europe

    • Xiaojing Wang
    Pages 9-39

  4. Self as Other—Indigenous Psychology and the Defining of a Chinese Subjectivity

    • Rainier Lanselle
    Pages 41-58

  5. The Chineseness of Huang Yongping and the Risks of Essentialisation

    • Christine Vial Kayser
    Pages 59-77

  6. The Attempt of the Xieyi (Essentialist) Theatre 寫意話劇 in the History of the Chinese Spoken Theatre

    • Yumei Chi
    Pages 79-90

  7. Manzhouli or Manchzhuriya? Linguistic and Cultural Hybridization in the Border City

    • Kapitolina Fedorova
    Pages 91-110

  8. Making Sense of Communication and Cultural Differences in the Workplace: The Case of Sino-Scandinavian Collaborations

    • Annelise Ly
    Pages 111-131

  9. Mediating or Exacerbating Cultural Differences: The Role of Interpreters in Official Intercultural Interaction

    • Jiayi Wang
    Pages 133-144

  10. Chinese ‘Enormous Hospitality’ Versus Finnish ‘Meeting Among Friends’: Guest-Host Positioning in China Finland Delegation Visits

    • Santa Stopniece
    Pages 145-161

  11. Stereotyping in the Teaching of Intercultural Communication with China

    • Hui Zanne Seng
    Pages 163-172

  12. Voices from the “East” in the “West”: An Analysis of the Cultural Discourse of Chinese Lecturers in France

    • Sin Zi Chin
    Pages 173-184
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About this book

A major objective of this book is to identify the key determinants of the “East” and the “West” in the field of intercultural communication. It examines but also counter-attacks essentialist and culturalist analyses of intercultural communication between China and the rest of the world. Offering a cross-country examination and comparison of drought awareness and experience, this book shows two fields of research, which are complementary but rarely found side by side, i.e. the Arts and Intercultural Encounters, serve as illustrations for theoretical and methodological discussions about intercultural communication between China and the West. Scholarly and media discourses will find this work thought-provoking, instructive and informative.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Teacher Education, University of Helsinki Department of Teacher Education, Helsinki, Finland

    Fred Dervin

  • Department of Modern Languages, Universiti Putra Malaysia Department of Modern Languages, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia

    Regis Machart

About the editors

Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He also holds other professorships in Australia, Canada, China, Luxembourg, Malaysia and Sweden and has widely published on identity, interculturality and mobility/migration in different languages. He is the author, amongst others, of Interculturality in Education: A Theoretical and Methodological Toolbox (Palgrave,2016).

Regis Machart is Senior Lecturer (Modern Languages) at Universiti Putra Malaysia and Adjunct Professor (Intercultural Education) at the University of Helsinki, Finland. His interests include intercultural communication and intercultural/multicultural education, representations of the Other in the media and fiction, construction of identity, discourse studies as well as academic mobility. He co-edited, amongst others, Cultural essentialism in intercultural relations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Intercultural Communication with China

  • Book Subtitle: Beyond (Reverse) Essentialism and Culturalism?

  • Editors: Fred Dervin, Regis Machart

  • Series Title: Encounters between East and West

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4014-6

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. and Higher Education Press 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-4013-9Published: 24 May 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5024-5Published: 11 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-4014-6Published: 15 May 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2364-6721

  • Series E-ISSN: 2364-673X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 184

  • Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociology of Culture, Asian Culture, Language Education

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