| Abstracts | 第1-13页 |
| 1 Introduction | 第13-26页 |
| ·Research Scope | 第13-14页 |
| ·Research Methods | 第14-15页 |
| ·Personal Experience | 第14页 |
| ·Interview | 第14-15页 |
| ·Questionnaire | 第15页 |
| ·Case Study | 第15页 |
| ·Research Purpose | 第15-17页 |
| ·Definitions of the Key Terms | 第17-24页 |
| ·Communication | 第17-20页 |
| ·Culture | 第20-24页 |
| ·Organization of the Research | 第24-26页 |
| 2 Field and Communication | 第26-57页 |
| ·Introduction | 第26页 |
| ·Different Approaches of Communication Studies: A Review of the Related Literature | 第26-44页 |
| ·The Process School | 第30-34页 |
| ·The Semiotic School | 第34-37页 |
| ·The Psychological School | 第37-39页 |
| ·Elements of Communication | 第39-44页 |
| ·Application of the Field Approach to Communication Studies | 第44-56页 |
| ·Field and Field Theory | 第44-49页 |
| ·Elements of the Field | 第49-51页 |
| ·Application of the Field Approach to Communication Studies | 第51-56页 |
| ·Summary | 第56-57页 |
| 3 Cognitive Differences between Chinese and Westerners: A Field Approach | 第57-114页 |
| ·Introduction | 第57页 |
| ·Particles in Intercultural Communication | 第57-66页 |
| ·Properties of Particles | 第58-60页 |
| ·Epistemological Core | 第60-63页 |
| ·Cultural Prints | 第63-64页 |
| ·Cultural Norms | 第64-65页 |
| ·Particles in Intercultural Communication: Intercultural Particles | 第65-66页 |
| ·Cognitive Differences between Intercultural Particles: A Field Approach | 第66-98页 |
| ·A Cultural-psychological View of Cognition | 第66-73页 |
| ·Historical Origin of Cognitive Differences: Ancient China vs. Ancient Greece | 第73-76页 |
| ·Continuity vs. Discreteness | 第74-75页 |
| ·Relationships and Similarities vs. Categories and Rules | 第75-76页 |
| ·Field-dependent vs. Field-independent: Cognitive Differences between Chinese and Westerners | 第76-98页 |
| ·Understanding of the Field: Holistic vs. Analytic and Dialectical vs. Logical | 第81-85页 |
| ·Explanation of the Field: Contextual vs. Dispositional | 第85-88页 |
| ·Categorization of the Field: Similar vs, Categorical | 第88-92页 |
| ·Control of the Field | 第92-94页 |
| ·Prediction of the Field: Holistic Prediction and 'Postdiction' | 第94-98页 |
| ·Values: Collectivism vs. Individualism | 第98-105页 |
| ·Values and Culture | 第98-100页 |
| ·Differences in Values between Chinese and Americans: Collectivism vs. Individualism | 第100-103页 |
| ·Collectivism vs. Individualism: Scales of Attention to the Field | 第103-105页 |
| ·Cultural Identities | 第105-112页 |
| ·Ethnocentrism and Cultural Imperialism | 第106-108页 |
| ·Cultural Relativism | 第108-109页 |
| ·Chinese and Americans: Stereotyped Cultural Identities | 第109-112页 |
| ·Summary | 第112-114页 |
| 4 Field-dependent vs. Field-independent in Intercultural Communication | 第114-171页 |
| ·Introduction | 第114页 |
| ·A Review of Literature on Intercultural Communication | 第114-123页 |
| ·Intercultural Model of Samovar and Porter | 第116-118页 |
| ·Uncertainty Reduction and Stranger Theory | 第118-119页 |
| ·Communication Networks | 第119-121页 |
| ·Hofstede's Five Dimensions | 第121-123页 |
| ·Culture, Communication and Intercultural Communication | 第123-126页 |
| ·FD vs. FID in Intercultural Communication: Studies of Face and Guanxi | 第126-150页 |
| ·A Review of Literature on Face and Guanxi | 第126-130页 |
| ·FD vs. FID in the Concept of Self | 第130-139页 |
| ·Self at the Intersection of Individual and Culture | 第132-133页 |
| ·FD vs. FID in Chinese and American Selves | 第133-139页 |
| ·Guanxi: Relation of Self to Others | 第139-144页 |
| ·Face and Its strategies: Evaluation of Self | 第144-150页 |
| ·FD vs. FID in Communication Styles: Studies of Context | 第150-163页 |
| ·FD vs. FID and High vs. Low Context | 第153-160页 |
| ·Selfserving Attributional Bias | 第153-154页 |
| ·Attention to Information | 第154-160页 |
| ·High vs. Low Context in Different Writing Styles: Implicit vs. Explicit | 第160-163页 |
| ·FD vs. FID in Studies of Time: Polychronic vs. Monochronic | 第163-169页 |
| ·Summary | 第169-171页 |
| 5 Conclusion and Suggestions | 第171-187页 |
| ·Introduction | 第171页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第171-182页 |
| ·More on Methodologies of Intercultural Communication Studies | 第182-185页 |
| ·Suggestions for Future Research | 第185-187页 |
| References | 第187-219页 |
| Acknowledgement | 第219页 |
