Intercultural Communication with China: Beyond (Reverse) Essentialism and

Description: 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). Introduction.- Hopeful Disappointment. Cultural Morphology and the Relation between China and Europe.- Self as Other. Indigenous Psychology and the Defining of a Chinese Subjectivity.- The Chineseness of Huang Yong Ping and the risks of essentialisation.- The attempt of the Xieyi (essentialist) Theatre ¿¿¿¿ in the history of the Chinese Spoken Theatre.- Manzhouli or Manchzhuriya? Linguistic and Cultural Hybridization in the Border City.- Making sense of communication and cultural differences in the workplace: The case of Sino-Scandinavian collaborations.- Mediating or Exacerbating Cultural Differences: The Role of Interpreters in Official Intercultural Interaction.- Chinese 'Enormous Hospitality' versus Finnish 'Meeting among Friends': Guest-Host Positioning in China-Finland Delegation Visits.- Stereotyping in the teaching of intercultural communication with China.- Voices from the "East" in the "West": An Analysis of the Cultural Discourse of Chinese Lecturers in France.

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