@inbook{003fcecc6b9f4c988132677e353f84ff,
title = "Reconceptualising the {\textquoteleft}Other{\textquoteright} in Australian Universities",
abstract = "Within the context of global mobility, the status of Asian students is defined by mixed temporalities, as all historical differences are mediated by a common narrative of European intellectual thoughts. One of the casualties of this tendency, grounded in a developmentalist construct of Asia and the west, is the way these students are categorised by a variety of {\textquoteleft}anachronistic{\textquoteright} practices as part of a pre-modern world. Such a conceptual framework deems Asian international students automatically remedial, while the education Australian universities {\textquoteleft}sell{\textquoteright} is regarded as {\textquoteleft}universal{\textquoteright}, belonging to a higher order of teleology. Through a close examination of the {\textquoteleft}Chinese learner{\textquoteright} paradox, this chapter contextualises the implications for the international newcomer on campus in an environment where there has been a market-based homogenisation. It situates Said{\textquoteright}s specific concept of Orientalism within Chakrabarty{\textquoteright}s general theory of developmentalism. Rejecting the neoliberal {\textquoteleft}social imaginary{\textquoteright} and notion of {\textquoteleft}universal human history{\textquoteright}, this chapter argues that differences in cultural background neither do consequentially assume out of time with contemporary norms, as defined by the technologies of the capitalist market; nor do they imply a {\textquoteleft}positional superiority{\textquoteright} for Australian universities, which acts against the transformative potential of transcultural education both in theory and practice.",
author = "Xianlin Song and Gregory McCarthy",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-662-47056-5_1",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-662-47055-8",
series = "Encounters between East and West: Intercultural Perspectives",
publisher = "Springer-Verlag London Ltd.",
pages = "1--16",
editor = "Regis Machart and Fred Dervin and Minghui Gao",
booktitle = "Intercultural Masquerade",
address = "Germany",
}