Cultural psychology as a discipline is designed ultimately to help understand and to help guide cultural practice. In the present study, we focus on the case of present-day Chinese communication (or discourse) and argue that an adequate understanding must take into account its cultural ways of thinking and feeling—a discourse-dialectic collective consciousness connected with Chinese history on the one hand, and international cultures on the other hand. From this perspective, we propose in particular that the Chinese cultural psychological entity be seen as a network of values, rules and resources for thinking and feeling that are embodied and strategically utilized in contemporary Chinese discursive practice. To elucidate this cultural psychological perspective, we cite and examine a range of empirical discursive examples in diverse settings. In conclusion, the future research agenda is discussed.
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