本书为跨文化研究丛书之3，关注全球化背景下的文化交汇，来自美国、德国、中国的多位专家从文化交汇和融合、全球化的趋势等两大部分分析探讨了众多文学作品中的跨文化因素。本书重点探讨了“从文化交汇到全球化”这一主题，涉及跨文化比较研究、世界少数民族文化、文化生态系统、多元文化主义和世界主义、文化身份研究以及小说文本分析等内容。

Intercultural Research Series Foreword
Volume Preface
Cultural Patterns of Communication-Values-Crossroads
Section One
Exploring Cultural Junctions
1. “Both Sides of the Mirror": Comparative Intercultural
Inquiry
2. Twice-Cross-Cultural Writing and “World Minority
Literature
3. From Appalachia to the Himalayas: An Interview with
Mark Bender
4. Film Semiotics, Shakespeare, and Hamlet's Chinese
Cousin: Decoding the Narrative of Feng Xiaogang's
The Banquet
5. They Do But Jest? - Theater in Different Cultural
Ecosystems
6. Zaju and The Caucasian Chalk Circle
7. The Myth of Russia as an Intertext in British Culture
8. Intrinsic and Extrinsic Cultural Mutations: Alobwed'Epie's
The Lady with a Beard
Section Two
Interpreting Globalization
9. Identity, Différance , and Global Cultural Studies: China
Going Abroad
10. From Multiculturalism to Social Cosmopolitanism: Toward
a New Narrative Mode
11. Memory for Transcultural Understanding? Reading Nairobi
to Shenzhen
12. Revaluing the Earth Through the Book-Bound Novel
Appendix
Values and Valuations: Lines of Inquiry
I. Literature and Values
Ⅱ. Intercultural Communication and Values
About the Authors
About the Series