Images of the other, images of the self :

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" Images of the other, images of the self : "
Chen, Chia-Hwan

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Record Number	:	1100186
Doc. No	:	TLets606850
Main Entry	:	Chen, Chia-Hwan
Title & Author	:	Images of the other, images of the self :\ Chen, Chia-Hwan
College	:	University of Warwick
Date	:	2007
student score	:	2007
Degree	:	Ph.D.
Abstract	:	During the interactions between the Chinese and the English from the 1750s to the 1840s, writers from both countries have created many distinctive images to represent "the Other" in their own discourses. Imagologists like Jean-Marc Moura (1992) and Daniel-Henri Pageaux (1994) indicated that every image of an "Other" de facto corresponds to an image of "Self." Consequently, the reciprocal images of the British and the Chinese may not only reflect individual writer's attitude towards "the Other" but also refract the self-images of each writer's own people and society. As writers are more or less conditioned by their immediate society, their images of "the Other" tend to reflect the collective ideology of a society. A study of reciprocal images in their own historical milieus will enable one to see why both parties were conditioned to produce certain images to represent "the Other" and why certain images may last longer than the others or even become stereotypes in different discourses. This thesis argues that neither the British nor the Chinese had unanimous images for each other from the 1750s to the 1840s, a century prior to the first Opium War. Instead, writers of both countries had created various negative and positive images of "the Other" to meet their own intentions during this period. By discussing the political, psychological and sociological meanings of the reciprocal images of the British and the Chinese diachronically and synchronically, this thesis suggests that writers might follow certain principles and rules to formulate their own images of other people as "the Other."
Subject	:	PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania
	:	PR English literature
Added Entry	:	University of Warwick