Friday Posted November 23, 2015 at 05:25 AM Report Share Posted November 23, 2015 at 05:25 AM I read two books on Chinese-English cross-cultural communication, Encounters with Westerners by Don Snow and Doing Culture by Linell Davis. Both books provide a lot of resources to help speakers of either language to learn how to communicate with English and Chinese speakers. These focus on the social aspects of communication. The books have many case studies, describing real life cross-cultural interactions, with comments on how to understand where communication failed and how people of the two cultures communicate differently. These are valuable resources, but I feel they are somewhat limited by the American perspective. Both are written by American authors teaching. As such, the case studies focus primarily on frustrations foreigners will spot while communicating with Chinese, but not on problems Chinese will spot while communicating with foreigners. Also, most of the stories focus on foreigners in China, and little attention is given to the communication problems Chinese will experience in America. Can anyone recommend some similar books, but written by a Chinese author? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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