To resolve the problems in the cultural communication between China and the west, we should again study the discoveries made and the problems referred to in Said's theory of Orientalism. The two kinds of researching attitudes, one regarding the Orient as 'the other', which brings the objectified homogeneous and discrepantand results, and the other regarding the West as 'the Other', which brings utilitarian anaclitic and technical tendency, both requires further reflections to solve the problems occurring in ...