Abstract
Against the backdrop that communication across cultures plays a paramount role in contemporary international environment, study on literary works about cross-cultural communication has been attached great importance. This report, resorting to two of Geert Hofstede' s value dimensions, intends to analyze the book—Looking at America, Memoirs of a Chinese Girl. Not only the influences of cultures on differences and similarities of the various situations that the protagonist has experienced will be analyzed in this report, but also detailed analyses about how Hofstede' s value dimensions work in this book will be presented.