Transcultural Encounters in Knowledge Production and Consumption

Part I. Encounters in Media: Placemaking and Meaning-Making

1. Civic Pluralism: Designing for Enriched Intercultural Experiences of Place
Mary Griffiths

2. Taming the Paradox Between Facts and Control: Media Discourses on Natural Disasters in Chinese Media
Weimin Zhang, Peter C. Pugsley

3. Public Humiliation: Carnival Marketplace and Discourse Power Shifting in Chinese Social Media
Minghua Wu

Part II. Creative Encounters: Literature, Music and Arts

4. Transcultural Affinities: In Praise of Wang Zuoliang
Nicholas Jose

5. Hsiung’s Cultural Translation of the Peking Opera Wang Baochuan

Huijuan Ma

6. British-Chinese Cultural Encounters and Negotiations: Issues of Culture and Identity in William Empson’s “China Works”
Jian Zhang

7. …from a thatched hut: Exploring Transcultural Composition
Stephen Whittington

Part III. Encounters in the Globalized Space: Education and International Relations

8. Asian Students Abroad: Missing the Boat of Adaptation?
Regis Machart

9. Understanding China: Challenges to Australian Governments
Gregory McCarthy, Xianlin Song

Keywords: Social Sciences, Cultural Studies, International and Comparative Education, Sociology of Culture