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Hybridities, Border Crossing and Yin–Yang

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This chapter is on the main conceptual framework of globalisation as hybridisation. I start with surveying the current debates of hybridities as products of processes, as explanation of how something comes into being and as an always negotiating process. I then highlight how I shall use hybridities, border crossing and the Chinese idea yin–yangtogether in the book as yet another hybrid.

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Pattie, Yee, Y., Luk-Fong (2013). Hybridities, Border Crossing and Yin–Yang . In: Teachers' Identities and Life Choices. Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, vol 19. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4021-81-4_2

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