Change and Exchange in Global Education: Learning with Chinese Stories of Interculturality

This unique book starts from the premise that students, scholars, and educators should be given access to a form of global education that is genuinely global. Using the notion of interculturality as change and exchange as a basis, the authors examine 50 discourse instruments (e.g. idioms, neologisms, slogans) related to what they call ‘Chinese stories of interculturality’. China, like other countries, has a rich and complex history of intercultural encounters and her engagement with the notion today, which shares similarities and differences with glocal discourses of interculturality, deserves to be unpacked and familiarized with. By so doing, digging into the intricacies of the Chinese and English languages, the reader is empowered to unthink, rethink and especially reflect on their own take on the important notion of interculturality. The book is aimed at Chinese and, especially, non-Chinese speakers interested in enlarging their reflections and knowledge of interculturality, beyond the ‘usual’, ‘imposed’ and largely ‘unchallenged’ of today’s scholarship and education on interculturality and globality. The authors remind us that interculturality is first and foremost about humanity and that ‘Chinese stories of interculturality’ are also very much ‘global stories’.