Transcultural Encounters in Knowledge Production and Consumption

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This book is a distinctive collection on transcultural encounters in knowledge production and consumption, which are situated at the heart of pursuit for cognitive justice. It uniquely represents transcultural dialogues between academics of Australia, China and Malaysia, located on the borders of different knowledge systems. The uniqueness of this volume lies in the convergence of transcultural perspectives, which bring together diverse disciplines as cultural studies, education, media, translation theory and practice, arts, musicology, political science and literature. Each chapter explores the possibility of decolonising the knowledge production space as well as research methodologies. The chapters engage with ‘Chinese’ and ‘western’ thought on transcultural subjects and collectively articulate a new politics of difference, de-centring the dominant epistemologies and research paradigms in the global academia. Refracted through transcultural theories and practices, adapted to diverse traditions, histories and regional affiliations, and directed toward an international transcultural audience, the volume demonstrates expansive possibilities in knowledge production and contributes to the understanding of and between research scholarship which deals with collective societal and cultural challenges within the globalised world we live in. It would be of interest to researchers engaged with current critical debates in general and global scholars in transcultural and intercultural studies in specific. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxiii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Civic Pluralism: Designing for Enriched Intercultural Experiences of Place (Mary Griffiths)....Pages 3-22 Taming the Paradox Between Facts and Control: Media Discourses on Natural Disasters in Chinese Media (Weimin Zhang, Peter C. Pugsley)....Pages 23-41 Public Humiliation: Carnival Marketplace and Discourse Power Shifting in Chinese Social Media (Minghua Wu)....Pages 43-61 Front Matter ....Pages 63-63 Transcultural Affinities: In Praise of Wang Zuoliang (Nicholas Jose)....Pages 65-80 Hsiung’s Cultural Translation of the Peking Opera Wang Baochuan (Huijuan Ma)....Pages 81-95 British-Chinese Cultural Encounters and Negotiations: Issues of Culture and Identity in William Empson’s “China Works” (Jian Zhang)....Pages 97-107 …from a thatched hut: Exploring Transcultural Composition (Stephen Whittington)....Pages 109-122 Front Matter ....Pages 123-123 Asian Students Abroad: Missing the Boat of Adaptation? (Regis Machart)....Pages 125-139 Understanding China: Challenges to Australian Governments (Gregory McCarthy, Xianlin Song)....Pages 141-163