Contents: They looked for Unicorns / Umberto Eco -- La muraille comme signe et limite des ensembles culturels (principalement en Occident) / Jacques Le Goff -- De la variete culturelle a l'Universel humain / Alain Rey -- Dialogue entre Chine et Occident: une question d'energie potentielle / Antoine Danchin -- Le son de la pluie / Alain Le Pichon -- Une tentative de greffer le christianisme sur le confucianisme et ses effets prodigieux ou l'apport paradoxical du "malentendu" / Meng Hua -- La culture et la traduction / Luo Peng -- Reflexion / Shan Dali --Between having a wall and having no wall / Tang Yijie --The Great Wall as symbol / Wang Meng -- Leibniz and China's I Ching figure and Chinese characters / Sun Xiaoli -- Cultural differences and cultural misreadings / Yue Daiyun -- Cultural barriers, cultural interpretation and cultural misreading / Chen Yuehong -- Eurocentrism and the idea of Zhonghua / Zhou Xing -- Misreading and its creativity in Sino-Western cultural communication at the end of the Ming Dynasty / Sun Shangyang -- God and Tian: a paradox of representing what is beyond representation / Wang Bin -- Tao, Doors and walls / Teng Shouyao -- "Modern times" and "Postmodern times" as I understand / Tang Yijie -- Romantic "misreading' between alien cultures / Zhou Xing -- Appendices: Unicorns and dragons hunted by scholars / Gong Qian --Umberto Eco et l'Universite sans murs / Dong Chun -- Speeches on the Round Table Coinference: "L'Idea di Moderno nell'Europa postindustriale e nella Cina contemporanea" / Ambasciata d'Italia Ufficio Culturale Pechino -- Projet de l'Universite sans murs / Fondation Trancultura -- Jointed Three-Year Plan / Institute of Comparative Literature and Culture, International Academy for Chinese Culture.