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Shi-xu (PhD, University of Amsterdam) has held teaching posts in the Netherlands, Singapore, UK, as well as at Zhejiang University, China. He has been the founding director of the Centre of Contemporary Chinese Discourse Studies, at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou Normal University and Communication University of Zhejiang, respectively. His books in English include Cultural Representations, A Cultural Approach to Discourse, Discourse and Culture, Chinese Discourse Studies, Discourses of the Developing World (lead-author), Read the Cultural Other (lead-editor) and Routledge Handbook of Cultural Discourse Studies (editor). He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Multicultural Discourses, General Editor of Routledge Cultural Discourse Studies and sits on a dozen of premiere international journal boards. His central scholarly position is that contemporary communication/discourse must be studied as a site of cultural contest, cooperation and transformation.