The Hetero Image of China in Maugham's Eyes in The Painted Veil  

作　　者：Jian Kunyan 简坤燕(Chongqing College of International Business and Economics,Chongqing,400000,China)

机构地区：[1]Chongqing College of International Business and Economics,Chongqing 400000,China

出　　处：《语言与文化研究》2025年第3期225-231,共7页Language and Culture Research

摘　　要：William Somerset Maugham was one of the most popular British writers of his era.Many of his works are closely related to China,among which is the famous novel The Painted Veil.This novel narrates the love story between the heroine Kitty,an attractive but vainglorious middle-class lady,and the intelligent bacteriologist Walter Fane.This thesis aims at exploring the hetero image of China in The Painted Veil from the perspective of imagology.It comprises four chapters.Chapter one introduces the definition of the terms“Image”and“hetero image”.Chapter two analyzes Maugham’s diversified concepts of China:one is the positive and good image,and the other is the negative image.Chapter three illustrates the specific images of China revealed in the novel The Painted Veil,on both positive and negative aspects.After the exploration of the image of China from the perspective of imagology,we can sum up that actually,the image of China in Maugham’s eyes indicated in The Painted Veil is not the real China.It is a combination of the real world observed by Maugham and the imaginative world conceived by him influenced by his own specific culture and society.

关 键 词：cultural perception literary analysis painted veil Painted Veil hetero image imagology China William Somerset Maugham 

分 类 号：I106.4[文学—世界文学] I106