Introduction.- Hopeful Disappointment. Cultural Morphology and the Relation between China and Europe.- Self as Other. Indigenous Psychology and the Defining of a Chinese Subjectivity.- The Chineseness of Huang Yong Ping and the risks of essentialisation.- The attempt of the Xieyi (essentialist) Theatre 寫意話劇 in the history of the Chinese Spoken Theatre.- Manzhouli or Manchzhuriya? Linguistic and Cultural Hybridization in the Border City.- Making sense of communication and cultural differences in the workplace: The case of Sino-Scandinavian collaborations.- Mediating or Exacerbating Cultural Differences: The Role of Interpreters in Official Intercultural Interaction.- Chinese 'Enormous Hospitality' versus Finnish 'Meeting among Friends': Guest-Host Positioning in China-Finland Delegation Visits.- Stereotyping in the teaching of intercultural communication with China.- Voices from the "East" in the "West" An Analysis of the Cultural Discourse of Chinese Lecturers in France.