摘要
《马可百万》是美国著名戏剧作家尤金·奥尼尔的作品,讲述了13至14世纪商人马可·波罗访华并在元朝宫廷中服务十余年的故事。剧中涉及多种东方形象,尤以大汗忽必烈及其他中国人物为代表。奥尼尔笔下的中国形象呈现出双重性:既带有乌托邦色彩,又富有意识形态化的特征。通过“他者”的构建,西方文化在塑造中国形象时既反映了理想化的“他者”,也暴露了深层的不安与刻板印象。本研究从形象学的角度,结合西方的中国形象史与奥尼尔个人的信仰,分析《马可百万》中的中国形象,以揭示西方文化中“他者”建构的历史与文化背景,探讨这种双重性形象的成因,旨在为更客观地理解西方文化中的中国元素提供新的视角。
The Marco Millions is a work by the famous American playwright Eugene O’Neill,which tells the story of the 13th to 14th-century Venetian merchant Marco Polo’s visit to China and his service in the Yuan dynasty court for over a decade.The play incorporates various Oriental images,particularly those of the Great Khan Kublai and other Chinese figures.The depictions of these figures in O’Neill’s work are characterized by both Utopian idealization and Western ideology,which makes the Chinese images in this work embrace a sort of duality.Through the construction of the“Other,”Western culture reflects an idealized“Other”while simultaneously exposing deep-seated anxieties and stereotypes.This paper approaches the Chinese imagery in the Marco Millions from the perspective of imagology,analyzing both the history of the Western representation of China and O’Neill’s personal beliefs.It aims to reveal the historical and cultural background of the construction of the“Other”in Western culture and explore the causes of this duality.The study seeks to provide a new perspective for a more objective understanding of the Chinese elements in Western culture.
作者
王欣
李丽凌
WANG Xin;LI Li-ling(Department Foreign Languages,Xidian University,Xi’an 710000,Shaanxi,China)
出处
《宝鸡文理学院学报(社会科学版)》
2026年第1期108-114,共7页
Journal of Baoji University of Arts and Sciences(Social Science Edition)
基金
国家社会科学基金重大专项:世界宗教传播史研究(项目编号:24VLS028)。
