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SUMMARY:CTIS Research Seminar - Warming Our Hands with Moonlight: Intercu
 ltural Encounters with Tibetanness on Chinese Digital Platforms
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DESCRIPTION:Intercultural communication scholarship has often prioritised
  encounters across national borders\, race issues\, and nationalism disc
 ourses\, with less attention to everyday interethnic communication. This
  study examines how digital media interactions mediate the construction 
 and negotiation of ethnic difference between Han Chinese and Tibetans in
  China. Historically\, the People’s Republic of China adopted a Soviet-i
 nspired system of ethnic classification\, while contemporary official di
 scourse increasingly emphasises unity among ethnic groups. Meanwhile\, s
 cholarship on internal Orientalism has examined how ethnic minorities ar
 e constructed as the internal Other\, solidifying the duality between th
 e self and Other. Within this context\, this study investigates the repr
 esentations of Tibetanness surrounding Dingzhen (also known as Tenzin)\,
  a Tibetan internet celebrity who gained widespread attention in China i
 n 2020 as “China’s most handsome man.” Drawing on Confucian culturalism\
 , this study uses ethnography and multimodal discourse analysis to exami
 ne how Dingzhen’s image circulates across major Chinese digital platform
 s\, and how these representations negotiate the relationship between eth
 nic difference and national belonging. The findings reveal how mediated 
 representations of Tibetanness reshape the boundaries between the cultur
 al self and the Other\, and raise questions about the possibilities and 
 limits of post-alteric intercultural encounters. This study extends the 
 understanding of how everyday digital media interactions negotiate cultu
 ral inclusion and othering.\n\nThe event will be held in hybrid mode. To
  attend online\, please register using the link below.\nTeams link: http
 s://tinyurl.com/CTIS-T2-26-27-Kang\n
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Conference room C1.18 \, Ellen Wilkinson Building\, Manchester
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