Abstract: This article reflects on contemporary Western theories of transcultural identity from the perspective of cultural globalization and reconstructs the two modes of I. A. Richards's transcultural heterotopic identity in the global flow of modernism between China and England. By focusing on the two modes heterotopic transcultural identification in homotopic positioning and heterotopic transcultural identification in heterotopic positioning, analyzes the following three aspects: the alterity and transcultural relationality immanent in cultural globalization as well as the corresponding anti-ontological transcultural heterotopic identity; Richards' heterotopic identification with China in homotopic positioning within the ontological cultural space of Cambridge University as well as his absorption of the traditional Chinese Confucian ideas of inner sagely cultivation and pragmatic rationality; Richards' transcultural ambivalence in the real cultural environment of China and his reconstruction of the transcultural heterotopic identity in heterotopic positioning via three transcultural ways of intervention, involvement, and transcendence. A study of these issues may place more emphasis on transcultural core ideas, such as dialogue, co-existence, interaction, and complementation, affirm the multiplicity of Chinese alterity in the global discourse on modernism, and clarify the different influences on Richards' transcultural heterotopic identity by modern Western episteme of linguistic cognition and traditional Chinese Confucianism that values concrete praxis.

Key words: I. A. Richards, cultural globalization, transcultural heterotopic identity