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.