Product Description: Turning Bricks into Jade: Critical Incidents for Mutual Understanding Among Chinese and Americans bridges the metaphorical gap between East and West. Exploring Chinese and American interactions through 41 specific, cultural incidents, Turning Bricks into Jade helps readers to clarify the issues between these two cultures...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This exceptional text introduces students to cross-cultural and intercultural research as it is applied to the fields of psychology and communication. Critical incidents (short stories) present important concepts in psychology and encourage interpersonal communication.

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Offers advice on how to gain support for proposals, involve people who have influence, deal with those who abuse their power, avoid opponents' maneuvers, and gain more responsibility (view table of contents)

Product Description: How valid are our self-perceptions in relation to other cultures? How receptive are we to the viewpoints of other cultures? In this volume, an international team of experts examines the many facets of the cross-cultural experience, including: cross-cultural testing and assessment; the psychological effects of acculturation; the role of foreign students; occupational and organizational psychology; acculturation and emotional and physical health; and cross-cultural orientation programmes...read more

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Product Description: Cross-cultural orientation programmes are designed to prepare people who are about to interact extensively with others from very different cultural backgrounds. Programme goals include development of better intercultural relations, smoother adjustment to problems and minimization of stress...read more