Chinese Discourse Studies

Shi-xu is Changjiang Distinguished Professor, Director of the Institute of Discourse and Cultural Studies, and Director of the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Discourse Studies, Zhejiang University, China. He is founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Multicultural Discourses and the General Editor of Cultural Discourse Studies Series. His books in English include: Cultural Representations, A Cultural Approach to Discourse, Read the Cultural Other (lead-editor), and Discourse as Struggle (editor).

• Preface Introduction: De-Westernising Discourse Analysis PART I: PARADIGMATIC CONSTRUCTION 1. Cultural Discourse Studies 2. Eastern Discourse Studies 3. Chinese Discourse Studies PART II: DISCOURSES OF CONTEMPORARY CHINA 4. Discourse and Human Rights 5. Discourse and Trade Disputes 6. Discourse and Urban Development Epilogue: Agenda, Dialogue and Practice

"Chinese Discourse Studies is organized in such a way that each chapter can also be read individually. ... Shi-xu's Chinese Discourse Studies is an original contribution to the understanding of the culture/discourse nexus. Shi-xu skilfully employs a complicated academic perspective to problematize the very basic questions of discourse and culture. Moreover, necessarily complex, the theoretically eclectic approach, which melds together perspectives from the areas of culture, discourse, linguistics, communication and philosophy, remains accessible to readers new to such fields." (Dalia Gavriely-Nuri, Discourse Studies, Vol. 18 (4), August, 2016)