Tom powstał dzięki współpracy badaczy podejmujących w swojej pracy naukowej problematykę relacji Chin i Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej w wielu perspektywach badawczych, zaczynając od literaturoznawstwa, poprzez dydaktykę, a na ekonomii kończąc. Te odmienne perspektywy pozwalają na ujęcie wzajemnych fascynacji, związków i sposobów oddziaływania dwóch obszarów kulturowych, leżących na krańcach Jedwabnego Szlaku, pobudzonych do współdziałania inicjatywą „One Belt, One Road”. Zebrane w tomie artykuły tworzą wielowymiarowy obraz przeszłości, teraźniejszości i przyszłości kontaktów pomiędzy Chinami i państwami Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem najnowszych relacji polsko-chińskich pomiędzy partnerskimi uczelniami z Polski i Chin.

Introductions

Tomasz Mizerkiewicz, Drugie opisanie świata – z chińskiej, środkowoeuropejskiej i bałkańskiej perspektywy (The Second Description of the World – from the Chinese, Central European and Balkan Perspectives)
Zhang Hui, 前言 (Between the Silk and the Amber)

From the perspective of teaching

Agnieszka Jasińska, Polish Studies in China Yesterday and Today – Tradition and New Challenges as Experienced by a Teacher of Polish as a Foreign Language
Anna Rabczuk, “Have You Eaten?” A Few Comments about Polish-Chinese Cultural Differences. Written in Language
Jagna Malejka, Cultural Differences and Teaching Polish Language as a Foreign Language to Chinese Students
Małgorzata Zduniak-Wiktorowicz, A Didactic Approach to the “Otherness” of Chinese Students in Poland and Germany. Teaching Polish as a Foreign Language and Intercultural. German Studies
Magdalena Gimbut, Artur Rega, Ruan Zheng, How to Facilitate the Cultural and Educational Exchange between Polish and Chinese Universities? The Case Study of Zhejiang University Ningbo Institute of Technology and its Polish Partners

From the perspective of literature

Rafał Dymczyk, Yinhui Mao, Michał Boym SI and His Contribution to the Process of Understanding. Chinese Culture
Anna Kołos, Writing in the Open Space. Polish Sailors in China between the End of the 19th Century and the Outbreak of World War II
Tomasz Ewertowski, How Travellers Related Stories about China. A Typology of Narrative Voices in Polish and Serbian Travel Writings
Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković, Garden Space and City Space. Chinese “Locus Amoenus” and “Inferno” in the Accounts of the Croatian Traveller Hrvoje Grgurić (1931)
Krzysztof Skibski, Verse Condensation of Language (about the Analysis of the Translation of Contemporary Chinese Poetry)
Paweł Zacharewicz, Czesław Miłosz’s Fascination with the East. Ontology of Cognition in East and West – Essential Differences
Tomasz Mizerkiewicz, “The Most Important Dialogue of my Existence”. Polish-Chinese Encounters in the Canon of Polish Modern Literature

From the perspective of business

Ernest Pempera, Goods on the Silk Road – from Relay to Sprint
Gu Hongfei, Chen Siyang, China-Poland Economic Cooperation in a Changing World: Achievements and Prospects Lu Wenjuan, Role of Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone in Sino-Hungarian Relations

Index

The volume is a result of multilateral co-operation of researchers interested in the relation between China and Central-Eastern Europe, described from many perspectives (e.g. literary studies, education, economy). This diversity helps to understand bilateral fascination, relations and influences of two distant cultural regions, located at two ends of the Silk Road in the past, reactivated now by the „One Belt, One Road” initiative. This collection of articles brings a vivid, multi-dimensional picture of relations between China and Central-Eastern Europe in the past and presence, presenting some opportunities for the future co-operation of the partner universities especially from China and Poland.