在客观再现中西方学者有关中西方文化差异研究成果的基础上，本教材具体内容以近年来的大量跨文化交流案例为横线，以下述五个部分的内容为纵线，全面而审慎地展开：中西文化对比的意义；无声语言与文化差异；思维与文化差异；价值观与文化差异；文化本位差异。视野较宽：21世纪的英语教学不应仅局限于语言层面，应该把视野扩大到文化层面，因此本教材还强调文化差异意识及敏感性的培养。涉及面广：本教材综合了英汉语言学、翻译学、文化学、文化交流学、人类学、史学等学科知识，比同类教材更重视学生对所学知识的综合运用。时代感强：今日学生的文化交流能力，特别是文化视野更为宽阔，因此本教材案例力求时代感强。

Foreword
Part I East and West
Unit 1 Why Contrasting Chinese and Western Cultures?
I. Ancient Civilizations and Cultures
II. Cross-cultural Comparative Studies in China
III. Imperatives to Contrast Chinese and Western Cultures
IV. A Note on Some Key Concepts
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 Concepts
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
Unit 5 Space
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
II. Nods in the Intercultural Communication
III. Silence in the Intercultural Communication
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
Unit 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 Atomistic Visions7
III. Vision and Cognition
IV. Vision and Language
V. Zhengshan Xiaozhong and Lipton Black Tea
Unit 10 Categorizing Objects by Relation vs. by Attributes 131
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河海大学外语学院教授，2001年南京大学博士毕业，全英文独撰作品2部，主编教材9部，其中《英汉翻译：方法与试笔》在我社出版；汉译英作品3部，英译汉作品8部，研究主持科研10项