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Contents

Foreword¡­1
Part I East and West
Unit 1 Why Contrasting Chinese and Western Cultures?¡­2
I. Ancient Civilizations and Cultures¡­2
II. Cross-cultural Comparative Studies in China¡­4
III. Imperatives to Contrast Chinese and Western Cultures¡­7
IV. A Note on Some Key Concepts¡­11
Unit 2 Traditional Characteristics of Chinese and Western Cultures¡­14
I. ¡°There Are All Kinds of Birds When a Forest Gets Large¡±¡­15
II. Traditional Chinese Cultural Characteristics¡­17
III. Traditional Western Cultural Characteristics¡­24
Unit 3 Affinities across Cultures¡­29
I. An Unexpected Affinity¡­30
II. Reading for More Cultural Affinities¡­30
III. A Note on Some Key Concepts¡­38

Part II Cultural Differences in Silent Languages
Unit 4 Time¡­43
I. Time in China and the West¡­44
II. Two Time Modes¡­48
III. Past-oriented Societies vs. Future-oriented Societies¡­54
IV. Two Time Orientations¡­57
Unit 5 Space¡­61
I. Spatial Language¡­62
II. Spatial Language and Culture¡­65
III. Spatial Language and Life¡­71
IV. Changes We Cannot Afford¡­73
Unit 6 Smiles, Nods and Silence¡­75
I. Smiles¡­75
II. Nods in the Intercultural Communication¡­80
III. Silence in the Intercultural Communication¡­82

Part III Cultural Differences in Thinking
Unit 7 Intuitive vs. Logical Thinking¡­89
I. Definitions of Intuitive and Logical Thinking¡­89
II. Philosophy and Thinking¡­90
III. Application of the Two Thinking Modes¡­94
IV. Impact of Thinking Modes on Writings¡­98
V. Logic in China and Intuition in the West¡­100
Unit 8 Dialectical vs. Analytical Reasoning¡­104
I. Proverb Preferences across Cultures¡­104
II. Dialectical Reasoning¡­105
III. Analytical Reasoning¡­109
IV. More about the Two Reasoning Modes¡­113
Unit 9 Holistic vs. Atomistic Visions¡­116
I. A Detention Room Incident¡­116
II. Prominent Attributes of Holistic and Atomistic Visions¡­117
III. Vision and Cognition¡­122
IV. Vision and Language¡­123
V. Zhengshan Xiaozhong and Lipton Black Tea¡­128
Unit 10 Categorizing Objects by Relation