Intercultural Communication with China : Beyond (Reverse) Essentialism and Culturalism?

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...

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Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors Dervin, Fred (Editor), Machart, Regis (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
SeriesEncounters between East and West, Intercultural Perspectives,
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9789811040146
ISSN2364-6721
DOI10.1007/978-981-10-4014-6
Physical DescriptionIX, 184 p. 16 illus. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • 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 寫意話劇 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.