This book is a summary of the author’s experience in teaching and studying Chinese and foreign cultures and cross-cultural communication, including a revised version of all his previous speech drafts and papers, thereby presenting itself as a sword sharpened in more than two decades.

This book focuses on the application of the cross-cultural communication theories, dealing with the influence of cultural differences on the interpersonal communication between Chinese and foreigners, the reflection of these differences in second language teaching and acquisition, the close relationship between cross-cultural communication theories and second language teaching and the effective way to apply the theories into second language teaching.

Written for second language(CSL or foreign languages) teachers and students, the book can be used not only as a textbook for cross-cultural communication courses or a reference book for second language teaching, but also as a reading material for people engaging in translation between Chinese and foreign languages or foreign affairs to refer to. It is a textbook or reference book useful for all, no matter Chinese or foreigners, who are living in such an international city as Beijing in the age of globalization.