Key Discussions; Essentialism, Neo-Essentialism, Cosmopolitanism, Imagined Certainty versus Acknowledged Complexity, Summary, Notes -- Critical Cultural Awareness; Models of Awareness, A Reconstructed Narrative, Critical Interpretivism, A Decentred Reading, Opening up Cultural Possibilities, Summary, Investigation, Notes -- Cultural Complexity; Informants, An Emergent Methodology, Statements of Cultural Identity, Competing Social Theories, Complexity and Politics, Thinking about China, Summary, Investigation, Notes -- The Indelible Politics of Self and Other; Othering, The Morality of 'Helping', Struggling with Identity Recognition, Understanding the Discourse Politics of Othering, Summary, Investigation, Notes -- Un-Noticed Periphery Identities; Claiming the World, 'Westernization' and Modernity, Summary, Investigation, Notes -- A Grammar of Culture; Negotiating Culture, Particular Content and Universal Process, Particular Social and Political Structures, Particular Cultural Products, Underlying Universal Cultural Processes, Summary, Investigation, Notes -- Discourses of Cultural Disbelief; Penetrating Professional Discourses, Sustained Disbelief, The Intercultural Line and the Third Space, Summary, Investigation, Notes -- Creative Cultural Engagement; Qing and the Seminar, Learning from the Margins, Summary, Investigation, Notes -- Culture, Real or Imagined?; The Centrality of Ideology, The Fact of Ideology, Cultural Realism, Summary, Conclusion, Notes.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [200]-215) and index.