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This article takes Jade Y. Chen’s Novels CHINA and THE MERRY LEAF as the research object. Taking Orientalism as a research method. Discuss Jade Y. Chen’s exotic normalization writing strategy. Both novels use material writing and love as the theme. While depicting the trade history between the East and the West in the 18th and 19th centuries, Western men traveled across the ocean to the East, fell in love with Eastern women and married them. This paper focuses on the love model of this western male-eastern woman, analyzes the deep power relations behind this structure, and examines whether the exotic normalization writing strategy has the cultural fusion function proposed by Jade Y. Chen.
This paper analyzes from three levels in order. The second chapter focuses on Jade Y. Chen’s childhood experience of lack of love, and the influence of homelessness and alienation on his creation. Then explore the experience and experience of Jade Y. Chen’s life experience and the aesthetic taste of this formation. The final focus on CHINA and THE MERRY LEAF to discuss the thoughts of the two novels. The third chapter begins with a brief history of the history of Sino-European trade in china and tea in the 18th and 19th centuries, and the relationship between the Jesuit missionaries and the Eastern and Western cultures. Then, focusing on the Westerners in the novel, the porcelain and tea imagine the layers of the East. Misunderstanding, the East has become an object of occlusion and backwardness under the gaze of the eyes of Western technology, and thus counters the modernity of the West. Finally, analyze how Jade Y. Chen exercises gender, constructs a female body and constructs an essential mysterious China, and combines the material-female-the eastern together. This writing strategy obscures the unequal power relationship. The fourth chapter firstly combs the Western male-eastern female narrative mode of Taiwanese literature; then compares the use of this model in Whirling Island and CHINA and THE MERRY LEAF. CHINA and THE MERRY LEAF does not reverse the logic of Orientalism, but strengthens it. Finally, compare the Western male-eastern female love patterns in two novels and Romance novels, pointing out Chen Yuhui's writing strategy: stitching historical texts and formulating romantic love festivals. |