Chinese Minzu Education in Higher Education: An Inspiration for ‘Western’ Diversity Education?

“I Want to Feel That I Live in China”: Imaginaries and Hospitality in International Students’ (mis-)Encounters at a Top Chinese University

“…In our previous research (Härkönen & Dervin, 2016;Yuan et al, 2020), we have demonstrated that international students' discourses about their (mis-)encounters rely on two aspects, which go hand in hand: (1) interculturality and (2) the study abroad experience itself.…”

COVID-19 and Interculturality: First lessons for Teacher educators

“…Since we were all experiencing the crisis at the same time and in different parts of the world (Mainland China, Finland and Sweden), and were all frustrated by the way the virus was dealt with interculturally around the world -which confirmed many of the critiques of the notion of interculturality that we had expressed before (e.g. Dervin, 2016;Jacobsson, 2017; P a g e P r o o f s Yuan et al, 2020) -we wrote this article with a Chinese saying in mind: 骂人不带一个脏字, which translates in English by means of an oxymoron, "Swearing without a word".…”

Business English students’ multifaceted and contradictory perceptions of intercultural communication education (ICE) at a Chinese University

“…Although we realize that a case study from the subfield of intercultural business communication cannot inform of the whole situation of ICE in China (which is in fact very complex, see e.g. Wang, Deardorff, and Kulich 2017;Yuan et al 2020), based on our knowledge and manifold experiences of the field in this context, we believe that multi-perspectival answers to the questions we ask in this paper will sound familiar to many Chinese (but also international, up to a point) international educators. We end the paper by making recommendations as to how to move on with ICE.…”

“…In their international bibliometric analysis for the knowledge of intercultural competence (a central concept in ICE) between 2000 and 2018, Peng, Zhu, and Wu (2020) note that the first five highly cited authors are all white British and American scholars. Although their ideologies might differ slightly, because of their potentially distinct scientific, political and economic 'tribes' (Yuan et al 2020), the voice of these scholars is omnipresent in global studies of ICEincluding in China. The majority of existing research on the intercultural is confined to M. Byram's model of intercultural communicative competence (Byram 1997) and using that model to assess intercultural competence.…”