Embroidering Myself into Otherness : an Auto-ethnographic Inquiry of Border-crossing

This auto-ethnographic inquiry explores the complexities and singularities of a western teacher immersed in the social reality of a Chinese university. Focusing on the specifics of my relationships with Chinese colleagues and students, I offer an alternative way of interpreting intercultural relatio...

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Main Author: Scott, Joy Denise
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Curtin University 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1382
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description This auto-ethnographic inquiry explores the complexities and singularities of a western teacher immersed in the social reality of a Chinese university. Focusing on the specifics of my relationships with Chinese colleagues and students, I offer an alternative way of interpreting intercultural relations. Through these relationships I foreground inclusion, exclusion, contradiction and the complexity of everyday life, and ask: who is the Chinese other? Who is the foreigner? What can they teach each other?
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-13822017-09-13T16:12:24Z Embroidering Myself into Otherness : an Auto-ethnographic Inquiry of Border-crossing Scott, Joy Denise This auto-ethnographic inquiry explores the complexities and singularities of a western teacher immersed in the social reality of a Chinese university. Focusing on the specifics of my relationships with Chinese colleagues and students, I offer an alternative way of interpreting intercultural relations. Through these relationships I foreground inclusion, exclusion, contradiction and the complexity of everyday life, and ask: who is the Chinese other? Who is the foreigner? What can they teach each other? 2013 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1382 10.4225/06/55B08D1721790 en Curtin University fulltext
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title_full Embroidering Myself into Otherness : an Auto-ethnographic Inquiry of Border-crossing
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title_short Embroidering Myself into Otherness : an Auto-ethnographic Inquiry of Border-crossing
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