Purpose - This paper aims to analyse the conceptual bases of the related terms of "host" and "guest" in Chinese and reveal essential, though overlooked, cultural differences that relate to "hospitality" in Western and Chinese cultural contexts. Design/methodology/approach - A presupposition of this conceptual investigation is that culture manifests itself linguistically. The analytic approach used here is textual analysis. Confucian classical texts are the main source of evidence for examining the conceptual commitments of the Chinese characters. and. and their corresponding practical expressi...
