Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Chinese Culture and Communication: Diverse Contexts and Comparison with the West -- 1 Revolution and Us: A Cultural Rendition of Political Movements in Contemporary China -- 2 Culture and Modernization: The Case of the People's Republic of China -- 3 The Problem of the Public: John Dewey's Theory of Communication and Its Influence on Modern Chinese Communication -- 4 Chinese Culture and Its (Post) Modern Fate: Three Debates and One Critique -- 5 Women and the Rhetorical Tradition in Premodern China: A Preliminary Sketch -- 6 Creating a Female Language: Symbolic Transformation Embedded in Nushu -- 7 Hierarchy Is Not Harmony: A View of the Traditional Chinese Family -- 8 Chinese Family Consumer Socialization: A Study of Chinese Urban Adolescents' Involvement in Family Purchasing Activities -- 9 Karaoke as a Form of Communication in the Public and Interpersonal Contexts of Taiwan -- 10 Market and Politics: Hong Kong Press during Sovereignty Transfer -- 11 Humanism and Human Rights: A Comparison between the Occidental and Oriental Traditions -- 12 Talking Cultures: A Comparative Analysis of Chinese and U. S. American Stories about Human Rights -- 13 Comparison of Chinese and American Views on World Opinion: A Rhetorical Study of Media Reports -- 14 Pan Gu's Paradigm: Chinese Education's Return to Holistic Communication in Learning -- 15 Chinese Rhetoric through Chinese Textbooks: Uniquely Chinese? -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.