The Otherness From The Perspective Of Chinese And Western Culture

Pearl Buck is an American writer of a dual cultural identity, though she had spent her important stage such as childhood, young period, youth and middle-aged in the Chinese cultural environment and was deeply edified by Chinese culture, after all, she is a foreigner with American cultural lineages, who accepted the lineage of external Chinese culture and at the same time kept in touch with the western maternal culture from America. So although she has special feelings to China in the emotional and realistic level, his descriptions of China is, after all, an "otherness". It fared particularly outstanding in her fiction masterpiece Trilogy of The Good Earth, which won The Nobel Prize for literature by epic depicting to the Chinese rural subjects and its appearance. And especially " Chinese image " she painted is worth pondering and aftertaste.Trilogy of The Good Earth just by its specific writing observes, makes it to enter the imagologie view to analyze the relationship between "self" and "others" culture, become the examples of showing collision and communion between the Chinese and western culture.However, in recent years the research of Chinese image to buck generally hasn't cleared out what is dominant Chinese image under different cultural. So based on the analysis of the text, mainly using such methods as the text research, cross-cultural research, the imagologie study, parallel study, this paper aims to specifically comb what the dominant Chinese image is in different cultural perspective in the works, which contains potential ideology of "otherness" in the western perspective, obvious and natural "otherness" in the oriental perspective , universal and beyond "otherness" in the Chinese and western perspective. As a typical case utilized for example, this paper aims to further consolidate the communication between Chinese and western culture of the bridge and promote a universal value of "world literature" coming of age, through the research of Pearl Buck's "otherness" 's image in the Chinese and western perspective.