Preface: Can a Spider Weave its Way out of the Web that it is Being Woven into, Just as it Weaves? Angel M.Y. Lin 1. Introduction: Struggles to Construct New Research Imaginations in Response to Chens Challenges Philip Wing Keung Chan, Hongzhi Zhang & Jane Kenway 2. Asia as Method: Chens Conceptual Openings Jane Kenway 3. East-West Dialogue: Three Cases in Chinese Educational Research Hongzhi Zhang, Philip Chan, Yujia Wang & Cunzhen Yang 4. A Japanese Perspective on the Implications of Silence in Education Dat Bao 5. Asia as [a] method of Complexity and Dialogue Bin Wu 6. Generalizing the Self? Asianizing Perspectives on International Education and the Formation of Self Nhai Nguyen & Peodair Leihy 7. Revisiting Local Wisdom: Efforts to Improve Education Quality in Indonesia Paulus Kuswandono, Isti Gandana & Siti Rohani 8. Problematizing National Identities and the East-West Dichotomy through the Language Practices and Values of English Language Teacher Trainees in Vietnam Thuy Linh Le & Hai Ha Vu 9. Doing Educational Research in Asia: Contextualizing Western Methodology in Bangladesh Mohammod Moninoor Roshid, Mohammad Nure Alam Siddique, Md. Mahbub Alam Sarkar, Foez Ahmed Mozumder & Hosne Ara Begum 10. Against Asia-centric Methods: Australia-China Theoretic-linguistic Knowledge Co-production Michael Singh 11. A Collaborative Postscript: Imagination, Aspiration, Anticipation and Hesitation Hongzhi lS