Intercultural Masquerade: New Orientalism, New Occidentalism, Old Exoticism (Encounters between East and West)

Annotation This volume revisits the notions of Orientalism, Occidentalism and, to a certain extent, Reverse Orientalism/Occidentalism in the 21st century, adopting post-modern, constructionist and potentially non-essentialising approaches. The representations of the 'cultural Other' in education, literature and the arts are examined by scholars working in Australia, France, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and the USA. Vinyl compilations, TV series, novels, institutional discourses and surveys, amongst others, are examined so as to better understand how people construct their identity in relation to an imagined and idealised Other. This book will appeal to all researchers and students interested in cultural identity and stereotypes of the 'East' and the 'West', in particular in the fields of academic mobility, cultural studies, intercultural education, postcolonial literature and media studies Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Reconceptualising the ‘Other’ in Australian Universities....Pages 1-16 Encountering ‘the West’ Through Academic Mobility: Shifting Representations and Reinforced Stereotypes....Pages 17-32 The PRC “Foreign Talent” Scholars and Their Singaporean “Other”: Neo-Occidentalism Amidst Intercultural Contact in the Context of Higher Education Student Mobility....Pages 33-49 French Media Critics of Asian Education: A Systematic Quest for the Cultural Other ....Pages 51-65 Crate-Digging Columbuses and Vinyl Vespuccis—Exoticism in World Music Vinyl Collections....Pages 67-79 East Blurs West: Global Crusaders in Amin Maalouf’s L’Amour de Loin ....Pages 81-95 Using Diaspora: Orientalism, Japanese Nationalism, and the Japanese Brazilian Diaspora....Pages 97-117 The Rise of the Chinese Villain: Demonic Representation of the Asian Character in Popular Literature (1880–1950)....Pages 119-133 Writing Ambivalence: Visions of the West in Republican and Post-Maoist Chinese Literature....Pages 135-147