A Study On The Exotic Image In Lao She’s Works

There is a series of exotic image in Lao She’s works; it is the important part in the study of Lao She. Now, the study on the exotic image in Lao She’s works have made some performance, but there’s still some space to develop. The study in the past paid more attention to the character in the work, but paid less attention to the factors such as exotic scenery, customs and stereotype, which is the important content of imagology. Imagology not only focuses on the character, it also focuses on the scenery, customs, character and stereotype, which reflects the complicated relationship between the author and the exotic image. This provides legal gist and elucidative dimensionality to help us to do a study on the exotic image in Lao She’s works. On this basis of the interactive relationship between "self" and "the other", the exotic image can reflect Lao She’s complicated mind and the otherness between eastern and western culture. So we can know the unique cultural thinking of Lao She. The study of Lao She can have a wide space and the possibility of multidimensional interpretation from the angle of imagology to make a study.The exotic image in Lao She’s work can be divided into three parts, Britain image, Nanyang image and Japan image. The former two types are based on the exotic experience; the last one is Lao She who as a victim observed the Japanese in our own land. In these three types of exotic image, which includes imaginative social, and the age, the angle to watch the foreign country, the experience of Lao She. Both Britain and Japan left Lao She a destroyed home in his childhood, the former is a colonial empire, the later is the invader who destroyed China with a long time, these made Lao She created the ideological exotic image. As an intellectual, based on the consciousness to think about "the other"reasoning, and the dissatisfy to the own country, Lao She created the utopian image which is different from the own country. That is also the reason why the exotic image in Lao She’s works is different from others’. Lao She abominated the foreign country emotionally, but he still reasoning thought about what made "the other" be strong, he always with the eye of the world to see. Nanyang image is different from Britain and Japan. It brought national confidence and hope to Lao She. Alought it exits narrow in the multicultural society of Nanyang, but virtue of traditional culture with Chinese made Lao She delighted, new generation also gave him the hope.The foreign experience, the thinking as a modern people, and the traditional cultural in his body, these made Lao She always in the antithesis between tradition and modern. In the collision with modern and tradition, the eastern and western, Lao She hadn’t chosen the modern to instead tradition, that is different from many "May Fourth" intellectual. Lao She wondered between the tradition and modern, in the sence and sensibility "antiomy". When the "self" come across "the other", the problems from tradition is obviously. Lao She hoped the "self" can find the problems from "the other" and to save the own citizens. But the dissociative attitude made Lao She’s way to save the citizens become dimly. Faced to the traditional and modern culture, Lao She has contradiction and wandering, but because of this, he treated the western cautiously. And Lao She worked hard to find the essence in the traditional culture.