A Thesis On The America Image From The Eyes Of The Late 20^th Century's Chinese Writers

In the 1950s to 1960s, the Chinese writer who goes to the United States from Taiwan is an important Chinese American Literature creation community, they take their own multiple migration experience (the mainland—Taiwan—United States) as the creation background, has created a large quantities of classical works which is full of literary value, and achieves a unique position in the interpretation of American society as well as constructs the image of the United States. Yu Lihua, Bai Xianyong and Nie Hualing these three writers are the representatives of the community, and this article takes their works as the discussion objects, from the comparative perspective of image study to analyze the U.S. image from their works which have the deconstruction color. This article is divided into three parts to expand the discourse; specifically speaking that is as follows:The first part, under the space construction, the author gives emphasis on discussion of the image of the United States from the skyscraper, bar, basement and such kinds of settings to carry on the analysis. The author also points out that the skyscraper, which stands for the typical image of the American metropolis, is a symbol of material prosperity, also shows out of the nothingness of the human spirit; the bar, as the public space, which concentrates the city's desire and pervades the atmosphere of death; the basement, as the private space of the character's activity place, through a positive attitude reveals the dark side of the United States; the road, highlighting that the Chinese immigrants' living condition is "on the road" and which also reflects Chinese's feel of rootless in the American society; while the "stone city" is a metaphor, which compares the modern U.S. to a "ghost town", is implying the decadent of the American traditional culture and the American spirits. Therefore, in these writers'works, the United States has faded the Utopian color as a "golden country", becomes an "urban wilderness" which is full of nothingness, desire and depravity.In the second part, the author discusses the U.S. image from the spiritual dimension. Combined with the cultural identity of the three writers, the author from the emotion, the moral and the spirit these three dimensions launch the concrete discussion:emotionally, most of their characters encountered the family's indifference, love's hopelessness, idea's disillusion, and emotional sought, but eventually moves toward the feel of lost, and thus the U.S. to them is a "desolate city"; at the moral level, after the Chinese moved to America, their concept of family and marriage have been close to materialism, and their sexual attitudes also changed a lot, from this perspective the article highlights that there is full of a kind of degenerate and decadent atmosphere in the American society, and the American as a "fallen city" also profoundly been reflected; in the spiritual level, through the image of such kinds of Chinese characters who failed in the "life plant" and those who want to settle in the United States but "in and not be", this article shows the Chinese-American's "rootless" and declares that the American society did not have the "root" for the Chinese, thus the America is the Chinese's "'rootless'country". Based on this, from the energetic dimension, each of the magnificent "American Dream" has broken, and the United States has become a "lost Utopia".The third part is from the perspective of the main cultural identity to further explore the reasons, that is, how this kind of American image is developed under the eyes of these three writers. And the author's answer is that:their identity crisis caused by their multiple roles, the special status as the culture marginal person and the unceasingly "Chinese root" are the important root cause.