Miskimmon, O'Loughlin and Zeng: Introduction.- Part I: Shaping Narratives: Contexts for Alignment.- Alister Miskimmon and Ben O'Loughlin (Queen's University Belfast and Royal Holloway, University of London): The EU's struggle for a strategic narrative on China.- Liu Chunrong, (Fudan University): Framing China-EU Sub-regional Cooperation: The Elusive Pursuit of Normative Resonance?.- Shi Zhiqin and Vasilis Trigkas (Tsinghua University), Reconstructing Geography, Power and Politics in the Belt & Road Initiative.- Zhenyan Xi (Sichuan University) - The Assessment of China's Economic Rise and Its Strategic Narrative in Europe.- Part II: Measuring Narratives: Analytical Tool of Perceptions.- Jinghan Zeng (Royal Holloway): The role of Europe in Chinese strategic narratives: "Belt and Road Initiative" and "New Type of Great Power relations".- Junchi Ma (Institute for European Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences): The paradoxes between narrator and audience in the China's narrative of Belt and Road Initiative.- Li Zhang (Tsinghua University)- China's Belt and Road Initiative in the European Media: A Mixed Narrative?.- Feng Zhongping and Huang Jing (China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations), Chinese strategic narratives of Europe since the European debt crisis.- Floor Keuleers (Leuven): Choosing the Better Devil: Reception of EU and Chinese Narratives on Development by South African University Students.- Carolijn van Noort (Otago/UWE): Visual Analysis of the Belt and Road Initiative: The Securing of a Regional Geopolitical Order, China's Identity, and Infrastructure Development Narratives.- Miskimmon, O'Loughlin and Zeng: Conclusions.