本书为“外教社跨文化交际丛书”之一，作者放眼个体、社团、社会和科研，从跨文化能力背景、理论、理论扩展以及理论与现实的关系四个方面探讨了培养和发展跨文化能力的重要性和方法。

List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Part Ⅰ．The Background
1．Introduction
Common Experiences of Crossing Cultures
Theorizing About Cross-Cultural Adaptation
2．Existing Approaches to Cross-Cultural Adaptation
Macro-Level and Micro-Level Perspectives
Long-Term and Short-Term Adaptation
Adaptation as Problem and Adaptation
as Learning／Growth
Varying Theoretical Accounts and Empirical
Assessments
Divergent Value Premises：Assimilationism And Pluralism
Toward Integration
PartII．The Theory
3．Organiz2ng Principles
The Domain and Boundary Conditions
Assumptions：Strangers as Open Systems
Mechanics of Theorizing
Empirical Grounding
4．The Process of Cross-Cultural Adaptation
Cultural Adaptation
Cross-Cultural Adaptation
The Stress-Adaptation-Growth Dynamic：
A Process Model
Three Facets of Intercultural Transformation
Axioms
5．The Structure of Cross-Cultural Adaptation
Personal Communication：Host Communication
Competence
Social Communication
Environment
Predisposition
Linking Dimensions and Factors：A Structural Model
Assumptions，Axioms，and Theorems
PartIII．Elaborati On of the Theory
6．Personal Communication
Host Communication Competence
Cognitive Components
Affective Components
Operational Components
Linking Cognitive，Affective，and Operational
Components
7．Social Communic-ation
Host Social Communication
Ethnic Social Communication
Linking Factors of Host and Ethnic Social
Communication
8．Environment
Host Receptivity
Host Conformity Pressure
Ethnic Group Strength
Linking Factors of Communication and Environment
9．Predisposition
Preparedness for Change
Ethnic Proximity
Adaptive Personalit
Linking Factors of Communication and Predisposition
10．Intercultural Transformation
Functional Fitness
Psychological Health
Intercultural Identity
Emergence of Intercultural Personhood
Part IV．The Theory and the Reality
11．Research Considerations
The Theory：Principal Features
Theory·Research Correspondence
Toward Methodological Integration
12．Practical Insights
Understanding Adaptation Potential
Host Environment as Partner
Wdlingness to BeChanged
Managing Stress
Focusing on Communicative Engagement
Cultivating Adaptive Personality
Forging a Pam of Intercultural Personhood
Notes
Refefences
Index
About the AUthor