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A FOREIGN EFL EDUCATION PROFESSIONAL'S TRANS-MEDIA CULTURAL STORY OF LIVED EXPERIENCE IN CHINA
FROM XINJIANG [XUAR] TO SHANGHAI & BEYOND
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Autoethnography is "an approach to research and writing that seeks to describe and systematically analyze personal experience in order to understand cultural experience. This approach challenges canonical ways of doing research and representing others and treats research as a political, socially-just and socially-conscious act. A researcher uses tenets of autobiography and ethnography to do and write autoethnography. Thus, as a method, autoethnography is both process and product."
(Ellis, Adams & Bochner, 2011)
1.0 INTRODUCTION: "千里之行，始于足下" (Lao Zi)

1.1 "SELF-INTRODUCTION": LONGITUDINAL TRANSMEDIA CRITICAL REFLECTION ON 10+ YEARS OF EFL PROFESSIONAL PEDAGOGIC PRACTICE IN CHINA

1.1.1 "EYE SEE | i AM" - SELF-INTRO IN CRITICALLY REFLECTIVE SLIDESHOW OF SMARTPHONE PHOTOGRAPHY IN PRE-COVID JING AN, SHANGHAI
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"Autumn Follies"
"Porky's Re-Grounded"
"The Winter Strollers"
"The Handlebar Shot"
"Snap-happy Holiday"
"Green House"
"Block Tower"
"Askew"
"Askew 2"
"Apartment Heart"
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NARRATIVIZED SLIDER GALLERY OF SMARTPHONE PHOTOGRAPHY: a chronological assembly of smartphone photos of Jing An, Shanghai circa 2017-19,  With comments, reflection and linked additional content.  

1.1.2 "BEING IN TIME (GN) 1": CRITICALLY REFLECTIVE NARRATIVIZED GRAPHIC NOVEL FORMATTED DURING COVID-19 LOCKDOWN
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GRAPHIC NOVEL AS SLIDER GALLERY: Experimental autoethnographic graphic novel [GN] with page by page comments, reflection and linked additional content.  Original PDF version was completed during Covid-19 lockdown, circa 2021-23.

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1.2 TRANSMEDIA AUTOETHNOGRAPHY IN MEDIA RES: [AUTO-]ETHNOGRAPHIC METHODOLOGIES IN CHINESE EFL INTER-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION [IC] COURSE DESIGN - ANALYTICAL CASE STUDY AND CRITICAL REFLECTION  FORTHCOMING
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2.0 LONGITUDINAL TRANSMEDIA AUTOETHNOGRAPHY

2.1 "BEING IN TIME": PLACE MEMORY & PEDAGOGY - FROM XINJIANG [XUAR] TO SHANGHAI: IDENTITY (RE-) CONSTRUCTION DURING COVID-19 LOCKDOWN IN CHINA
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2024/05/12: Being in Time is a 35 min auto-ethnographic film, the first half of a two-part digital feature. It explores foreign EFL teacher identity construct dialectics in contemporary China, qualified by China/West geopolitical tensions. It is an experimental pilot to an ongoing, episodic series within a longitudinal autoethnographic trans-media parent project. This parent project relates my lived experience as an EFL teacher in China's language education system. I worked within this system in both the public, government-run sector (secondary education in Xinjiang [XUAR] prior to tertiary pedagogic practice in Shandong and Shanghai) and the private, corporate driven EdTech sector (in Shanghai). The film was completed during "zero-Covid" conditions in China from 2020/02 to 2022/12. Second part production was thereafter initiated in tandem with my current tertiary level teaching of Inter-Cultural Communication [IC]. READ MORE

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2022/10/03: "Break of Day", "Gallipoli" and ANZAC ideology in the cinema of disability. Overland. 

https://overland.org.au/2022/10/break-of-day-gallipoli-and-anzac-ideology-in-the-cinema-of-disability/

2023/02/22: "Genocide Games": Deconstructing "Forced Labor in Xinjiang" Discourse During the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics (Amended). Draft Paper. Academia.edu

https://www.academia.edu/79737544/_Genocide_Games_Deconstructing_Forced_Labor_in_Xinjiang_Discourse_During_the_2022_Beijing_Winter_Olympics_Amended_

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2.2 RECONCEPTUALIZING AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC FILM
 

2.2.1 "IDENTITY CONSTRUCT DIALECTICS": LIVED EXPERIENCE AS EVOCATIVE AUTO-ETHNOGRAPHIC MULTIMEDIA VIDEOGRAPHIC SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT-CREATION

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2.2.1(a) LATEST DIARY FILM

DIARY FILMS PLAYLIST: a chronological anthology of short autoethnographic re-conceptualizations of the diary film format,  Evocative interpretivism perhaps.  Travelogue-based but heavily montaged for aesthetic and discursive purposes.  Sporadically updated as pieces to potentially draw on for future anthologizing.

2.2.1(b) LATEST EXTENDED FEATURE

FEATURE FILM ROUGH-CUT: An artifact - incomplete record of the last time I saw my father alive and the two of us re-visited his former hometown of Coober Pedy, South Australia.  An opal mining town, I spent my childhood there and much reflection on the film of "Being in Time" (above) is inspired by such place memories. 

2.2.1(c) LATEST MUSIC VIDEO MASHUP

AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC MUSIC VIDEO MASHUPS: experimental AV montages of original video edited with found object media overlays and set to personal favorite song selections.  Intended as an adjunct to diary films, evocative - exploring the aesthetic potential of autoethnography as once reflected in avant-garde work.

2.2.1(d) COVID-19 LOCKDOWN FILMS

2.2.1(e) LATEST 420 JOURNAL FILM

2.2.1(f) AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC SHORT FICTION

THE LOCKDOWN FILMS: a series of short films and experimental montages produced and/or post-produced during China's Covid-19 lockdown period.  The films were originally intended for anthologizing and the final version of 14 films was a precursor to the final "Being in Time" concept (home) movie.  Formally freer than many later works.

ABORTED JOURNAL?: 420 journal films is a haphazard assembly of found footage edits experimenting with abstract imagery and text-based narration.  In these films, I play with effects with less deliberation than finalized works and thus these remain works perhaps unfinished or in need of updating.  Presented for archival interest.

EXPERIMENTAL AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC SHORT FILMS:: experimental AV montages of original video edited with found object media overlays - similar style but exploring more aesthetic options at the edge of the ethnographer / auteur dialectic that affected Mekas, Brakhage, Anger and the avant-garde "home movie" aesthetic. 

NOW INTEGRATING DIGITAL (SELF-)PUBLISHING

#ISBN REGISTERED AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC TRANSMEDIA DIGITAL PUBLISHING: IN MEDIA RES DIGITAL DOCUMENTATION ARCHIVE

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