Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: New Perspectives on Cross-cultural Engagement Part I Australia and China Engaged: Past and Present 1. Cross-cultural Encounters in History: Australian Women in China 2. Travellers' Tales and Australia's China "Literacy" 3. Business Guidebooks and Cross-cultural Engagement between Australia and China 4. An Evaluation of Australia-China Relations under the Gillard/Rudd Labor Governments 2007 - 2013 5. How to Mitigate the Potential Conflicts between China and Australia Part II Cross-cuhural Understanding and Misunderstanding 6. China and Australia: Understanding and Misunderstanding Each Other 7. Great Expectations 8. Intercultural Communication and Cultural Mediation: Translating Chinese Films for the Australian Audience 9. A Critical Analysis of the Semantic Prosody in Media Discourse about China's Rise 10. Miscommunication in Australia-China Relations: The Stern Hu Affair 11. 孔子学院项目在中国崛起中的作用(The Confucius Institute Project in the Rise of China) Part III Understanding Australia 12. Repositioning Australia in the Asia Pacific 13. Is Value Diplomacy for Real or a Cover for Realism? 14. The Immortal's Roles in the Land Rights "War" in Carpentaria 15. Learning Australian English Vocabulary: Focus on Form or Forms? Part IV Rethinking Australia's China/Asia Literacy 16. Getting It: Predicting the Chinese Future 17. Asia Literacy and the Purposes of Schooling in Australia 18. China as a "Problem" and Australian Politics 19. Cross-cultural Literacy as Social Knowledge: Implications for Australia's Understanding of China Selected Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index