The Images Of Western Countries And People Shaped In The Contemporary Historical Novels

As its name suggests the image of science is the study of the image. But here is not the image of all things can be described as the image of general interest, it is a study in the literature on the exotic image of the shape or description.In contemporary Chinese literature, Western image caused more frequent and sustained attention after the Cultural Revolution. After the founding of the Cultural Revolution because of the impact of factors such as ideology and constraints, writers and literary texts in the Western image showed almost the official evaluation surprisingly consistent, with the opening of the Cultural Revolution after in-depth, the Western concept from points to the coverage of the entire China, the Western image showed sway changing posture, look at different specific time has different characteristics. The late 1970s to the mid-1980s, writers shape the overall image of the West in terms of the - clear good and evil, mainly to dioxin. In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, to more positive image of the West mainly narrative tone also more appreciation for nature. Since the mid-1990s, the Western imagination more attention to Western culture, awareness and Western powers in the conflict of Western culture, in recent years, tend to the cultural awareness of the feelings of the unique personal expression.Novels from contemporary history, the Western image of a breakthrough in shaping those words with his distance from the mainstream of the society of writers Ling into the historical novels of the essence of Western culture: personal independence, religious transcendence Gaoyang Western historical novels Original shape the pursuit of historical truth, Mo Yan, Xie Zhaoyan different characters of the West, and in 2008 Wang Xiao Qin and others in the pursuit of Western novels describe the details of the real, and these types of writing are the highlights.Ling of the historical novels of Western culture written spare no effort in the late 1970s and early 1980s "Star grass," Ling force to break hostile to the West and begin to describe the good and evil of the western world, and the early 1990s "juvenile emperor" and "been a wake" "Qingguoqingcheng" She has the connotation of Western culture have a more in-depth exploration, her efforts to show the cultural essence of the West: an independent personality, religious freedom and equality and beyond, perhaps she has too much imagination to belittle China Culture suspects, but her efforts alone are worthy of recognition. At the end of the 1990s, "West Side Commissioner River" with a new approach and meticulous realism depicting various aspects of Western life, Western culture, the Western sense of the inherent integration fictional character, in the characters on the Chinese and Western cultures combine. Ling image of the West, the Western culture is sustained attention attracted our attention, her image in the West has also repeatedly emerged novelty, her imagination and contemporary literature of the Western imagination to maintain close contact, drifting to this, Ling made of the West can imagine that there is room for interpretation.Western image of the contemporary China has a relatively obvious flaw, first, from its trajectory of the show, literary texts and shaping political reality and reality too closely linked, writers in the West imagine a time not and social mainstream discourse distance. Second, the "exotic" utilitarian vision of the reality of writing too big a culture of a cultural show, 70, the 1980s was a political assessment of the literary interpretation of a strong flavor of the 1990s, commercial, and even Western unique writer who feel some Western figures in shaping the image of the West is also too much focus on "self", the spirit of self-dwarfing the relative fullness and the other, finally settled the West in shaping the image of the self-identity of the. Historical novels focus on relatively recent history of the Western image more detailed description worthy of recognition, the authors look more objective, because of the time the precipitation and the mind of the adjustments described, they shape the image of the West beginning to show another kind of charm.