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The idea for this book sprung from a meeting between the two editors, Qi Wang and Min Dongchao, and their colleague, senior researcher Cecilia Milwertz at NIAS (the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies) in the spring of 2013. Dongchao had just been granted an EU Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship within the Seventh European Community Framework Programme and had moved to the NIAS in Copenhagen to start her two-year project titled “CrossCultural Encounters—The Travels of Gender Theory and Practice to China (and the Nordic Countries).” And since the project is about how feminist gender theories “travelled” to China, we talked about a potential travelogue in the opposite direction, namely a translation of scholarly works from China to the outside world. We all liked the idea, not only because it matched Dongchao’s project very well, but also because we, as scholars of two cultures, have constantly travelled between different cultures in our research and have personally experienced the importance of cross-cultural dialogue in knowledge production. We have particularly recognized that, in our globalized world, knowledge/theories travel mainly from the West to the nonWest, particularly from the United States and Europe to other parts of the world, whereas the flow in the opposite direction are very rare (Costa 2000; Min 2008; Thayer 2010).
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Wang, Q. (2016). Introduction. In: Wang, Q., Dongchao, M., Sørensen, B.Æ. (eds) Revisiting Gender Inequality. Comparative Feminist Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137550804_1
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