当记者们离开其熟悉的社会空间被派驻到异国后，他们将如何重新构建自己的社会交往网络，从而完成跨国新闻实践？本文以驻华外国记者为例，将跨国社会空间引入到研究中，通过参与式观察的方法，调查了不同类型空间中他们之间的交往方式，从而发现，具体实在的地理空间依然影响着他交往实践的展开。同时，基于职业形成的交往网络跨越了工作与休闲空间的界线，渗透入他们的日常交往之中。

How do journalists reconstruct their social networking to facilitate news-gathering process when they are sent to foreign countries that are far away from their home turf where they have woven their social relationships? By introducing the concept of transnational social space, this paper explores different spaces in which foreign correspondents in China carried out their social interactions and discovers that place still has a strong influence in terms of shaping their transnational practices. Also, occupation based social network has cut across the boundary between work and leisure and expands its reach to daily interaction.