Mainland Chinese college students majoring in English language studies completed new measures of independent self-construal and interdependent self-construal. Participants completed these in English or in Chinese, after having engaged in either a self-priming task in which they wrote about unique features of the self or their memberships in social groups. Independent self-construal scores were lower when the task was presented in English. Interdependent self-construal scores were lower after having completed the unique self-prime. These findings are discussed in terms of biculturalism, bilingualism, foreign language processing difficulty and differential potencies of primes. (Contains 2 tables.)