一九八七年十一月二日，政府開放兩岸的探親典文化交流，至今歷經十年。約略可劃分為四個時期:一九八八年至九0年為「交流嘗試期」、九一至九四年為「制度化時期」、九五年為「共識奠定期」、九六年至今為「轉變性緊張期」。本文擬從文化中的認知、信仰、規範、表現四大系統，來檢討十年來的交流成果與缺失，以便鑒往知來。認知系統包括學術、出版與資訊;信仰系統色括道毅、佛教、基督教與天主教等;規範系統色括法律、倫理與教育;表現系統包括電影、電視、戲劇、音樂與舞蹈等。

More than ten years have passed since the November 1987 decision by the ROC government to allow its people to visit their relatives on the mainland and to promote cultural exchanges across the Taiwan Strait. Cross-Strait exchanges in the past one decade can be classified into the following four periods: trial (1988-90)，systematization (1991-94)，consensus building (1995)，and tension (since 1996). This article will evaluate exchanges across the Strait from the following four cultural realms: cognition， religion， standardization， and manifestation. Included in the realm of cognition are academic research， publication， and information; in the realm of religion are Taoism， Buddhism， Christianity， and Catholicism; in the realm of standardization are law， ethics， and education; and in the realm of manifestation are movies， TV programs， drama， music， and dance.