Editor's Introduction

It is with great pleasure that we offer this first issue of Volume 3 of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China.

Following the publication of Volume 2 in 2016, Karnac was sold to Routledge, and we had to look for a new publisher. We have now found a welcoming home at Phoenix Publishing House, founded by two veterans of Karnac, Kate Pearce and Fernando Marques. In addition, we are now able to publish in China on the platform Jiandanxinli or MyTherapist, due to the collaboration of its CEO Li Zhen. We plan for two issues published in English with Phoenix, and will then publish in Chinese by distributing the articles via Jiandanxinli, and will offer lectures by the authors of the articles on the platform, with translation when the authors are non-Chinese speaking. In this way we expect to draw a large audience in China. My thanks to Kate, Fernando, and Li Zhen for collaborating in this groundbreaking venture.

This issue features wonderful articles. It begins with a section on cultural issues vital to all therapists working and teaching in China. Michael Stadter and Gao Jun, two eminent psychologists who have taught together in Beijing many times over several years, explore the similarities and differences in concepts of shame in China and the West. Peter Loewenberg, philosopher and psychoanalyst and former Chair of the IPA's China Committee, considers wider cultural issues, and his article is followed by Wang Huan's thorough consideration of concepts of femininity and masculinity in China. Following this theme, Xu Jianqin, a graduate of the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance and current psychoanalytic distance candidate in Philadelphia, writes on concepts of womanhood through the lens of “The Oresteia”. Her article is then discussed by Jill Savege Scharff, supervising analyst at the International Institute for Psychoanalytic Training in Washington, DC, and founder of a new training programme in child psychotherapy offered through Jiandanxinli in Beijing and through