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A Study On The Image Of China In Detective Novels Written By Qiu Xiaolong

Posted on:2018-11-07Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:B Y GuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2335330536984146Subject:Chinese Language and Literature
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This dissertation analyzes the urban ecology and social landscape,placing the image of China in the detective novels under Chinese English literature system,through the perspectives of Comparative literature image,postcolonial criticism,social history.It explores the psychological motivation of the C hina's image creation and specific social and historical context,and thus reflects the author's cultural identity.As the first C hinese American writer to focus on Chinese contemporary change,Q iu Xiao long concentrate on bustling and agitate urban form,filterability social strata of d the development of accelerate modernization,presenting it different from history chain of suffering China and absurd C hina contemporary rhetoric,so that it can break through the Western C ultural Hegemony dominating the creation dilemma of self-orientalism.He has three p urpose.The first is to question the suffering and absurd China's image on Chinese western literature and show the western modern China's appearance.The second is to show the author's strong national identity and spread Chinese excellent culture responsibility consciousness.This writing behavior producing from the western preac hing against C hina,has a strong sense of confrontation and dialogue.The third is to use utopia C hinese image prototype call psychological structure in western literature of the western readers under the social crisis in the United States,promptly take the initiative to master the spread national image and the notion of national resources.Q iu Xiaolong the image of C hina in the detective novels belong to the exotic image research.The image of China in Qiu Xiaolong's detective novels belong to the exotic image research,beneficial to increase the understanding of western culture,and is of certain significance to recognize the social development of our own reality demand,some kind of mental structure and cultural sub-consciousness.
Keywords/Search Tags:the images of C hina, the change of China, self-orientalism
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