【正文】 his paper pares the differences of power distance between China and America in terms of paternalism and workplace relations through The Wedding Banquet and shows the statusquo of Chinese and American power distance by presenting the research result. In addiction, this paper provides the solutions to these munication barriers incurred by such difference. 2. Literature review After Geert Hofstede’s research on power distance, many scholars tried to apply his theory to research into different cultural problems. These researches fell into different directions, including the parison between power distance of China and America. In 2021, Yu Jie and Zhang Liping did a research to analyze the reasons why power distance came into being in China and America. Their thesis was very detailed, however, it just justify one main reason, neglecting others. They found out that Confucian ethics and protestant ethics were the key factors influencing the formation of different power distance in China and America. Then, Wang Xianyun continued this topic in 2021 to further discover various reasons. The analysis of this research was from 4 dimensions, much more plete than Yu and Zhang’s. Both of these two dissertations analyzed the reasons why different power distance came into being in China and America, but these researches are theoretical rather than delivering some examples to us to have a better understanding of power distance. So later in 2021, Fang Jing did a research on the cultural differences between the East and the West in 4 terms of power distance. Inside this dissertation, Hofstede’s theory was applied to analyze the cause of power distance and it also presents some influences that power distance have on daily life, including the aspects of relations between parents and children, of relations between managers and employees and of relations between teachers and students. Compared with the study showed before, this one is much more convincing to show us that power differences does exist between China and America with the help of the description of those influences. But the general description of influences left by different power distances between two countries is not vivid enough to give the readers a better understanding of power distance. After studying the relevant documents, I think the materials issued by them should be bined together to give a plete idea to the readers. So in this paper, I will try to prove Hofstede’s theory by studying the case of The Wedding Banquet and analyze the phenomena of different power distance between China and America to see whether there are some changes. On the basis of the researches showed above, exploration of the reasons will be covered in the later part. Moreover, vivid examples showing different power distance in our daily life will also be presented. While the most important part is the problems of crosscultural munication barriers caused by different power distance and the relevant solutions. 3. Methodology In order to get abundant resources to demonstrate the different power distances in China and America, I have done a survey sending questionnaires through the inter to some Chinese people and Americans. After collecting related data and large numbers of daily life examples about the power distance in these two countries, analysis about the available data was carried out. In addition, some materials about the power distance in both countries were also quoted from books or the inter. 4. Theoretical Framework General introduction to Hofstede’s Research Geert Hofstede is a famous Dutch interculturalist. In early 1980s, in order to 5 investigate how workrelated values differ across cultures, he did a research which involved 116,000 respondents to answer the questions through interviews and questionnaires. And the participants in the study were all managers from IBM. The research subjects came from over 40 countries and regions. With such a huge data base, after several researches, Hofstede finally came up with four cultural dimensions on which cultures differ: individualism . collectivism, power distance, uncertainty avoidance and masculinity . femininity. Description of the Power Distance Theory Power distance is one of the four dimensions on which cultures differ. This cultural dimension describes how individuals within a society view power and, consequently, their role in decision making (Charles Mitchell, 2021, 16). It indicates the extent to which a society accepts the fact that power in institutions and anizations is distributed unequally among individuals （ Hofstede, 1991） . Hofstede thought that power distance is concerned about the equal problem among individuals. In all levels in society, such as family, school, and pany, power distance does exist. And it’s together with graded system. Because of many factors, there are power distance differences between two countries and the difference is reflected by power distance index. In high power distance society with large power distance index, people tend to accept the graded system and always show their respect for the people on a higher position who enjoy more privilege and seem to be a Godlike figure. People in such a society, like Chinese, stress the individual position differences and they are willing to accept such kind of unbalanced power delegation。 再者 ，本論文 分別 論述了 造成 中國(guó)與美國(guó)權(quán)力 距離差異的多種 原因 。梁寶妍 國(guó)際商務(wù)英語(yǔ)學(xué)院 英語(yǔ)（國(guó)際商務(wù)管理） 導(dǎo)師：張砥 1 Comparison of Power Distance between Chinese Culture and American Culture —— A Case Study of The Wedding Banquet Liang Baoyan School of English for International Business English (International Business of Management) Abstract: This paper pares the differences of power distance between China and America through studying the case of The Wedding Banquet. Moreover, it describes the phenomena of