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.