Lingue Culture Mediazioni / Languages Cultures Mediation (LCM Journal), edited by the Department of Language Mediation and Intercultural Communication of Università degli Studi di Milano, is a peer-reviewed journal which aims to investigate the linguistic and cultural phenomena characterising the contemporary world, and explore them in the context of the highly intricate web of historical, geographical, social and legal factors in which they are set. Issue 2/2018 Table of Contents: Emerging Chinese Theory and Practice of Media, Hugo de Burgh, Emma Lupano, Bettina Mottura - Dual Identity and Multiple Tasks: Contemporary Chinese Party Media's Involvement in Political Communication, Jing Xu, Dengfeng Wang - Comparing Chinese and EU Soft Power: The Credibility Factor, Olivier Arifon - News and Views: Definitions and Characteristics of Genres in Chinese Journalism, Emma Lupano - From "Propaganda" to "Guided Communication". Animating Political Communication in Digital China, Lei Qin - Online Chinese Nationalism and the Discursive Construction of a Nationalist Hero: The Case of Jin Jing, Yiben Ma - The Study of a Journalism Which Is almost 99% Fake, Jing Su, Xiguang Li, Lianfeng Wang - The Chinese Press and the Constitution, Bettina Mottura -Authors