Wang Xi is assistant professor at Beijing Normal University.

Preface: Background to the Research
Chapter 1: Framing the Research: Theoretical and Methodological Concerns
Chapter 2: Stories from Class 2
Chapter 3: Discursive Practices in Lessons
Chapter 4: Discursive Practices in Extra-curricular Activities
Chapter 5: The Stratified and Differentiated Institutional Context
Chapter 6: Representations of Communication: Analysis of Individual Participants' Interview Transcripts
Chapter 7: The "Negotiated" Nature and the "Social-ness" of Organizational Communication: Discussion and Conclusion
Chapter 8: Reflecting On Field Relationships and Ethical Issues
Appendix 1: Hymes's (1972) Speaking Model
Appendix 2: Transcript Conventions
Appendix 3: Coding Chart
Appendix 4: Curriculum Design of This IBDP

This ethnographic study of an international curriculum program in China provides a holistic picture of classroom communication and describes patterns of discursive practice so that readers might vicariously experience the discursive construction of intercultural understanding. Through critical discourse analysis, this book reveals unequal access to meaning-making in everyday communication and explains these asymmetries in power.