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 for Contrasting Chinese and Western Cultures
  Ⅳ 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 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 Culotte
  Ⅲ Spatial Language and Life
  Ⅳ Changes We Cannot Afford
Unit 6 Smiles, Nods and Silence
  Ⅰ Smiles
  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 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 Two Reasoning Modes
Unit 9 Holistie vs. Atomistic Visions
  Ⅰ A Detention Room Ⅰncident
  Ⅱ Prominent Attributes of Holistic and Atomistic Visions
  Ⅲ Vision and Cognition
  Ⅳ Vision and Language
  Ⅴ Zhengshan Xiaozhong and Lipton Black Tea
Unit 10 Categorizing Objects by Relationships vs. by Attributes
  Ⅰ Two Ways to Categorize One Person
  Ⅱ Principles to Categorize Objects
  Ⅲ How to Categorize Objects and Why
  Ⅳ Impacts of Different Ways of Categorization
  Ⅴ Causal Attribution Differences Arising out of Different Categorization Ways
Unit 11 Non-controllers vs. Controllers
  Ⅰ Too Early to Tell
  Ⅱ Why So Different Stances Towards Life?
  Ⅲ "Being" and "Doing" Cultures
  ⅣManifestations of "Being" Culture and "Doing" Culture
Part Ⅳ Different Cultural Orientations
Unit 12 The Introvert-oriented vs. the Extrovert-oriented
  Ⅰ Personality Types
  Ⅱ Personality Types of Cultures
  Ⅲ Effects of Personality Types on Pattern Preferences
  Ⅳ A Contrast of Cultural Phenomena
  Ⅴ The Trend of the Introvert-oriented Culture
Unit 13 Collectivism vs. Individualism
  Ⅰ An Embarrassing Habit
  Ⅱ Collectivism and Individualism as Cultural Orientations
  Ⅲ Collectivism and Individualism in Cultural Anthropology
  Ⅳ Collectivist and Individualist Perspectives of "Self"
  Ⅴ Interdependence vs. Independence
Unit 14 Femininity vs. Masculinity
  Ⅰ Gender Traits
  Ⅱ Feminine Chinese Culture
  Ⅲ Masculine Western Culture
  Ⅳ Why So Different?
  Ⅴ The Trend of Cultures and Its Potential Impact
Unit 15 Advocacy of Jing vs. Dong
  Ⅰ Introduction to Two Concepts
  Ⅱ Jing Advocacy of China
  Ⅲ Dong Advocacy of the West
  Ⅳ Differences and Discomforts
Unit 16 Ⅰmplicitness vs. Explicitness
  Ⅰ "Half a Story"
  Ⅱ Implicitness and Explicitness of Language
  Ⅲ Implicit Chinese
  Ⅳ Explicit Westerners
  Ⅴ High Context vs. Low Context
  Ⅵ "Chicken and Duck Talk"
Part V Different Cultural Standards
Unit 17 Peace vs. Conflict
  Ⅰ Great Names and Different Cultural Standards
  Ⅱ External Factors and Cultural Standards
  Ⅲ Cultural Standards and Their Unique Products
  Ⅳ Better Ways to Know Each Other
Unit 18 Egalitarian and Inegalitarian Distribution
  Ⅰ Hate-the-rich Mentality
  Ⅱ Chinese-style Egalitarianism
  Ⅲ Western-style Inegalitarianism
  Ⅳ Egalitarianism and Inegalitarianism in China and the West
Unit 19 Good vs. Evil Human Nature
  Ⅰ Key Concepts
  Ⅱ Human Nature and Education
  Ⅲ Theorization of Assumptions About Human Nature
  Ⅳ Human Nature Theories and the Rule of