Lu Bicheng's Exotic Journey And Self-seeking

This essay focuses on Lu Bicheng's "Travels in Europe and America",combining with her other proses,old ci and shi genres.First,based on text reading,the essay analyzes Lu Bicheng's living experience,how she and the foreign world "read each other".At the same time,during her extraterritorial travel,she was always missing motherland and home.This essay further analyzes the relationship between the foreign sentiment in her eyes and the imagination of her homeland.Third,as one of the Chinese women in the transition period of modern times,Lu Bicheng also thought more about self-identity in the transformation space of Chinese and Western,and expressed vaguely through dreams.On the basis of a comprehensive review of Lu Bicheng's overseas experience and "Travels in Europe and America",this article is divided into three chapters.Lii Bicheng was not the first woman who traveled across the border,but her budget travelling as a single woman was groundbreaking.During the travel,Lu Bicheng enjoys a leisurely journey in foreign countries by means of advanced transport.She enjoys the pleasure of travelling alone,and even turns "danger" into "fun".From her travel writing,we can know the image of herself from eyes of the westerners.She was an independent woman,rich,fashionable and confident,just like the "the princess of the East".When Lu Bicheng faced the beautiful scenery of foreign countries,she mobilized her imagination of Chinese traditional poetry.She was deeply influenced by the aesthetic interest in Chinese traditional culture from the very young age,thus,the foreign scene written in those articles also showed the vision of the native country.Lii Bicheng searched for the memory fragments of her homeland in the western world,and at the same time transformed the homesickness into the reflection of the common fate and civilization of mankind.Behind Lu Bicheng's travelling experience and homesickness,we can see the deep projection of classical boudoir culture.It was often suppressed into a dream,and became more real when appeared in dreams.Lii Bicheng "had so many strange dreams in her life",through interpreting "Sick for Seven Days in New York" and other texts,the change of mind behind her extraterritorial travel is gradually emerging.Lii Bicheng's extraterritorial travel was "taking travel as the return",and it was also a journey of self-discovery.From Foreign land to motherland and boudoir,Lu Bicheng's writing also includes the complex experience across space,which is difficult to fully generalize in"traditional/modern" cognitive pattern.Through the shuttling and crossing of the virtual space,tradition/modernity and east/west intertwined with each other,Lu Bicheng as a woman in the transition era,tried to pursue and complete the self-identity,even more difficultly than the people of her time.The self-discovery of Chinese women has continued until now.Therefore,"Travels in Europe and America" is not only a backpacker's guide from 90 years ago,but also a new meeting with contemporary people.Lu Bicheng's life stories and writings may still resonate with us in the contemporary age.