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By employing the theory of Imagology, this work examines four literature works written in overseas study movements in modern Chinese history: Wang Tao's short stories in Songyin Manlu, Lao She's The Two Mas, Bai Xianyong's A Death in Chicago and Zhou Li's Manhattan's Chinese Lady. While tracing how Chinese intellectuals work through the dichotomy of China/West and Tradition/Modernity, this study also endeavors to reveal theoretical issues arising from inter-cultural communication and representation. It argues that the literary projection of the west manifests a complex sense of the Chinese self primarily due to the portrayals of western cities and westerners as an embodiment of Chinese understandings of western modernity at different periods. In the Late Qing, the depiction of London in Songyin Manlu only focuses on gunboats, cannons, museums, and factories, because western modernity for the Chinese at the time was signified by the mighty weaponry of British navy and advanced technology. In the 1920s, however, the portrayal of London in The Two Mas shifts to reveal how Londoners' lifestyle and culture make Britain the most powerful nation in the world, as the Chinese intellectuals advocated the westernization of Chinese culture in order to strengthen China. In the 1960s, the Chinese protagonist Wu Hanhun in A Death of Chicago feels estranged and sexually seduced in Chicago, subsequently loses his sense of purpose in life and eventually commits suicide, the depiction of which is consistent with similar themes in western modernist literature. This is due to the fact that the modernist movement thrived in Taiwan in the 1960s, and as such, had a large impact on Taiwanese writers. The 1990s-era Manhattan's Chinese Lady displays spectacles of America's wealth on the Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, as common Chinese strive for becoming rich in contemporary China owing to the Chinese government's promotion of market reform after 40 years of poverty in socialist China. The study concludes that regardless of whether or not the images of the west presented in Chinese discourse are idealizations, demonizations, or other related cultural determinations, they all manifest a type of anxiety in regard to the Chinese Self.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781244025905
  • Publisher: Proquest, Umi Dissertation Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Proquest, Umi Dissertation Publishing
  • Height: 254 mm
  • Weight: 426 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1244025909
  • Publisher Date: 01 Sep 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Spine Width: 14 mm
  • Width: 203 mm


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