A ground-breaking work,Read the Cultural Other argues that non-Western discourses cannot be contained in a 'general', 'universal', or 'integrated' model of linguistic communication or discourse, but must be understood from a culturally pluralist perspective. Proceeding from this standpoint, it offers a variety of innovative analyses of China and Hong Kong's discourses on the decolonization of the latter. Drawing on culturally different methods and local cultural context, these studies reveal the discursive complexity, diversity, and forms ofotherness of Hong Kong and China.

Shi-xu s Professor at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.

Manfred Kienpointneris Professor at the Leopold-Franzens University of Innsbruck, Austria.

Jan Servaesis Professor at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.