The Japanese Images In The Novels Of YuDafu

Yu Dafu wrote a lot of novels in his life. As a giant novelist in the May ForthMovement Period, there has been controversy over him and his works. His overseasstudying experience closely associated his novels with this country. The Japaneseimages he created in his novels are colorful and splendid. This thesis, with themethods of comparative literature imagology, reviews how the writer’s personalexperience in Japan influenced the creation of these Japanese images, theconnotation and the basis of them.The feelings Yu had for Japan can be described as a mixture of love and hatred,and the feelings he had for Japan determines his attitudes towards the Japaneseimages. Therefore, into these images he put his own feelings and consciousness.Yu Dafu created a series of Japanese images concerning Japanese landscape,cities, societies and Japanese people. It is true that the formation of the Japaneseimages was affected by the Chinese intellectuals’ group imagination of Japan; in themeantime, Yu’s own personality and temperament led to the uniqueness of the images.While describing the others, Yu reconsidered the self. By researching into the exoticimages in Yu’s novels, this thesis introspects the explanation of the others in Chineseculture, displays the face of the others in Chinese view, highlights the unique artisticstyle of Yu’s novels, hoping to expand the research into Yu’s novels and provide acase for the research of comparative literature imagology.