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