On Constructing the Image of China in the Viewpoint of Exotic Culture
The image of China has been continuously evolving and changing in the long-standing history of exotic cultures with its both merits and drawbacks.The seemingly contradictory vitality for the image of China is not incidental in the cultural"other",given that both utopian mirror China and ideological negative China can be seen in the image of China.It can be revealed that the image of China in the western culture shows a certain stable and common characteristic in the particular period of history—the convergence and continuation of the thinking mode of image narration,image tradition,and the connotation and extension of discourse construction.In the viewpoint of exotic culture,the construction of China's image unfolds the dimensions both in the aesthetic modernity and in rational modernity.