ContentsForeword…1Part I East and WestUnit 1 Why Contrasting Chinese and Western Cultures?…2I. Ancient Civilizations and Cultures…2II. Cross-cultural Comparative Studies in China…4III. Imperatives to Contrast Chinese and Western Cultures…7IV. A Note on Some Key Concepts…11Unit 2 Traditional Characteristics of Chinese and Western Cultures…14I. “There Are All Kinds of Birds When a Forest Gets Large”…15II. Traditional Chinese Cultural Characteristics…17III. Traditional Western Cultural Characteristics…24Unit 3 Affinities across Cultures…29I. An Unexpected Affinity…30II. Reading for More Cultural Affinities…30III. A Note on Some Key Concepts…38Part II Cultural Differences in Silent LanguagesUnit 4 Time…43I. Time in China and the West…44II. Two Time Modes…48III. Past-oriented Societies vs. Future-oriented Societies…54IV. Two Time Orientations…57Unit 5 Space…61I. Spatial Language…62II. Spatial Language and Culture…65III. Spatial Language and Life…71IV. Changes We Cannot Afford…73Unit 6 Smiles, Nods and Silence…75I. Smiles…75II. Nods in the Intercultural Communication…80III. Silence in the Intercultural Communication…82Part III Cultural Differences in ThinkingUnit 7 Intuitive vs. Logical Thinking…89I. Definitions of Intuitive and Logical Thinking…89II. Philosophy and Thinking…90III. Application of the Two Thinking Modes…94IV. Impact of Thinking Modes on Writings…98V. Logic in China and Intuition in the West…100Unit 8 Dialectical vs. Analytical Reasoning…104I. Proverb Preferences across Cultures…104II. Dialectical Reasoning…105III. Analytical Reasoning…109IV. More about the Two Reasoning Modes…113Unit 9 Holistic vs. Atomistic Visions…116I. A Detention Room Incident…116II. Prominent Attributes of Holistic and Atomistic Visions…117III. Vision and Cognition…122IV. Vision and Language…123V. Zhengshan Xiaozhong and Lipton Black Tea…128Unit 10 Categorizing Objects by Relation
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