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Chapter One Introduction 1

Section 1 What Is Culture? 1

Exercise 7

Section 2 The Origin of Civilization 8

Exercise 16

Chapter Two Culture and Geographical Conditions 17

Section 1 Chinese Culture and Geography 17

Exercise 20

Section 2 Western Culture and Geography 20

Exercise 24

Section 3 The River Civilization 25

Exercise 33

Section 4 The Egyptian Culture and the Nile 33

Exercise 38

Section 5 The Ocean Civilization 39

Exercise 45

Chapter Three Culture and Mythology 47

Section 1 Culture and Chinese Mythology 47

Exercise 53

Section 2 Western Culture and Greek Mythology 54

Exercise 62

Section 3 Western Culture and Roman Mythology 63

Exercise 68

Chapter Four Religious Beliefs and Values 70

Section 1 Confucianism and Christianity 70

Exercise 82

Section 2 Chinese Folk Religion 83

Exercise 87

Section 3 Christianity 88

Exercise 94

Section 4 Taoism 95

Exercise 100

Chapter Five Languages and Thought Patterns 101

Section 1 The Chinese Language 101

Exercise 106

Section 2 The English Language 106

Exercise 114

Section 3 The Different Thought patterns 115

Exercise 123

Chapter Six Artistic Life and Style 125

Section 1 Chinese Architecture 125

Exercise 130

Section 2 Western Classical Architecture 131

Exercise 141

Section 3 Chinese Drawing and Painting 142

Exercise 153

Section 4 Western painting 154

Exercise 161

Chapter Seven Family Concepts and Values 163

Section 1 Chinese Family Concept 163

Exercise 167

Section 2 Chinese Family:from Tradition to Modernity 168

Exercise 172

Section 3 Family Structure in the United States 173

Exercise 181

Chapter Eight Food and Culinary Art 183

Section 1 Chinese Food and Culinary Art 183

Exercise 188

Section 2 Cuisine of the United States 189

Exercise 196

Key to the Exercises 197

References 219