Part Ⅰ East and West
Unit 1 Why Comparing Clunese and Western Cultures?
Ⅰ.Ancient Civilizations and Cultures
Ⅱ.Cultural Comparative Studies in China
Ⅲ.Imperatives to Compare Chinese and Westem Cultures
Ⅳ.A Note on Some Key Terms
Unit 2 Traditional Characteristics of Chinese and Western Cultures
Ⅰ."There Are All Kinds of Birds When a Forest Gets Large"
Ⅱ.Traditional Chinese Cultural Characteristics
Ⅲ.Traditional Western Cultural Characteristics
Unit 3 Affinities across Cultures
Ⅰ.An Unexpected Affinity
Ⅱ.Reading for More Cultural Affinities
Ⅲ.A Note on Some Key Terms
Part Ⅱ Cultural Differences in Silent Languages
Unit 4 Time
Ⅰ.Time in China and the West
Ⅱ.Two Time Modes
Ⅲ.Past-oriented Societies vs.Future-oriented Societies
Ⅳ.Two Time Orientations
Ⅰ.Spatial Language
Ⅱ.Spatial Language and Culture
Ⅲ.Spatial Language and Life
Ⅳ.Changes We Cannot Afford
Unit 6 Smiles, Nods and Silence
Ⅰ.Smiles in the Intercultural Communication
Ⅱ.Nods
Ⅲ.Silence
Part Ⅲ Cultural Differences in Thinking
Unit 7 Intuitive vs.Logical Thinking
Ⅰ.Definitions of Intuitive and Logical Thinking
Ⅱ.Philosophy and Thinking
Ⅲ.Application of the Two Thinking Modes
Ⅳ.Impact of Thinking Modes on Writings
Ⅴ.Logic in China and Intuition in the West
Urut 8 Dialectical vs.Analytical Reasoning
Ⅰ.Proverb Preferences across Cultures
Ⅱ.Dialectical Reasoning
Ⅲ.Analytical Reasoning
Ⅳ.More about the Two Reasoning Modes
Unit 9 Holistic vs.Atomistic Visions
Ⅰ.A Detention Room Incident .
Ⅱ.Prominent Attributes of Holistic and Analytic Visions
Ⅲ.Vision and Cognition
Part Ⅳ Different Cultural Orientetions
Part Ⅴ Different Cultural Standards
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