Rhetorical City-Portrait in The Vermilion Gate  

作　　者：LIU Ru-fei 

机构地区：[1]English Department,Foreign Language School,Wuhan University of Technology,Wuhan,China

出　　处：《Journal of Literature and Art Studies》2023年第5期334-339,共6页文学与艺术研究（英文版）

基　　金：This article is funded by Teaching Research Project-2022 in Wuhan University of Technology.

摘　　要：Lin Yutang’s English novel,The Vermilion Gate,whose story mainly focus on the social turmoil in Xi’an under the rule of warlords and the family conflicts within the Dafudi,depicts how Chinese people solve the internal and external conflicts with wisdom and how fragile women grows in the war.Basing on the analysis of rhetorical portrait of Xi’an and heroic Chinese people in this novel,this paper explores Lin Yutang’s rhetorical preference in constructing image of China and his unique cultural values behind the English writing.

关 键 词：rhetorical city-portrait The Vermilion Gate image of China 

分 类 号：H31[语言文字—英语]