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China And Europe Have Few Political Values In Common, Even Though They Employ The Same Value-laden Concepts In Their Political Discourse. Chinese-european Disputes Over Issues From Tibet To Human Rights, From Market Economy Status To The Arms Embargo, From Africa To Iran Are Reflected, To A Large Extent, In Their Perceptual Gaps On Such Political Concepts As Sovereignty, Human Rights, Strategic Partnership, Multilateralism, And Global Governance. The Authors Analyze How Differently China And Europe Interpret The Same Political Concepts, To Examine What Implications Of Their Conceptual Gaps May Have On China-eu Relations, And Thus To Discover How Best To Manage And Bridge Them. Exploring The Conceptual Gaps In China-eu Relations; Z. Pan -- Part I: General Dimension: Sovereignty And Soft Power -- Sovereignty In China-eu Relations: The Conceptual Gap And Its Implications; Z. Pan -- Diversity, Pragmatism, And Convergence: China, The European Union And The Issue Of Sovereignty; J. Gottwald And N. Duggan -- Conceptual Gap On Soft Power Between China And Europe And Its Impacts On Bilateral Relations; Z. Chen And L. Song -- China And The Eu: Conceptual Gaps In Soft Power; A. Michalski -- Part Ii: Bilateral Dimension: Human Rights, Democracy, Stability, And Strategic Partnership -- The Conceptual Gap On Human Rights In China-europe Relations; C. Zhang -- Europe, China And Expectations For Human Rights; D. Freeman And G. Geeraerts -- The Eu And China's Perceptions Of Democracy And Their Impacts On China-eu Relations; S. Weil And Y. Jing -- Conceptual Gaps On Stability In Chinese And European Contexts; C. Ding -- Stability And Change: The Eu, China And Perceptions Of Stability; D. Freeman -- Conceptual Differences Of Strategic Partnership In Eu-china Relations; M.u. Stumbaum And W. Xiong -- Part Iii: Multilateral Dimension: Multilateralism/multipolarization And Global Governance -- Multipolarity And Multilateralism As International Norms: The Chinese And European Perspectives;