The book is intended for graduate students and other learners who show a great interest in language, culture and intercultural communication. It covers ten chapters alto-gether and involves: 1) an elaboration of how three new motivations and China's rise on the world stage speed intercultural communication today; 2) an interpretation of how cul-ture and communicat'ion are related to each other, and what are their respective characteristics and modals, and what are intercultural communication and their forms; 3) a compari-son between Chinese and American cultures from three per-spectives of different cultural patterns, value dimensions and the deep structure of culture; 4) a description of language characteristics, function, and its relationship with culture,and an explanation of translation as a culture and language transference and as an equivalence-seeking in different cultures or languages; 5) a discussion of thetoric functions as thinking modes to reflect cultures and as an effective means to convey the intention or thought of speakers in intercultural communication; 6) a case analysis of intercultural communication in education and medical treatment between Xiang and Ya for more than a hundred years; 7) a presentation of some examples selected from graduates to discuss and comment on the Chinese Movie Guasha in the perspective of intercultural communication as an ending of the book.