Ling Chen’s research while affiliated with Hong Kong Baptist University and other places

... While a number of scholars have focused on the issue of western bias in intercultural research (e.g., Kim 2002;Park & Levine 1999), Yoshitaka Miike (2010) has argued that the Western paradigm for interpersonal behavior is often treated as the human paradigm resulting in the trivialization of non-western versions of experience. More recently, Chang and Chen (2015) called for rethinking the dualistic and often reductivistic paradigm in cross cultural studies of interpersonal communication focusing instead on unity in diversity. Scholars studying communication between people from different cultures often come to the hard realization that available theories, measures, and research designs do not work in the same way in other cultural contexts and that concepts being investigated are not equivalent (Levine et al. 2007). ...

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9. Interpersonal communication and relationships across cultures