裘小龙侦探小说里的中国形象_英语论文

The Image of China Reflected in Qiu Xiaolong’s Detective Fiction 

摘要

裘小龙作为一名华裔美国作家为众人所知悉，如今定居于圣路易斯，为华盛顿大学的中国文学教授。他经历了中国上世纪七十年代的文化大革命，于80年代进入大学，毕业后赴美国深造。时值美国华裔文学复兴，有一大批有才之人涌现在美国文坛。之后裘小龙便开始创作英文侦探小说并出版，获得空前的成功。其大背景设置在改革开放初期的上海。有一部人率先先富了起来，而有一部分人仍然固步自封止步不前。裘小龙先生的侦探小说向人们展示了生动而又深刻的中国印象。本篇论文讲从三个方面讨论侦探小说里中国印象：一是主人公陈超，从某种意义上讲他是裘小龙先生笔下那个时代的象征，也有很多其自身的影子；二是国内外读者对小说的参与；三是裘小龙先生对故乡的记忆，这记忆里有最真实的中国印象。

关键词：裘小龙；侦探小说；中国印象

Abstract 

Qiu Xiaolong gains his fame as a Chinese-American writer and settles in St. Louis, working as a professor of Chinese literature at Washington University. He was one of the generation who went through the Cultural Revolution in 1970s, and went to college in 1980s. After graduation, Qiu flew to the United States to further his education. In the later 20th century, the American literary world has witnessed a series of revolutionary changes with Chinese American writers displaying their talent to the western world. Qiu began to publish his own English detective novels. The background is set in a typical period of time in Shanghai when the socialist economy is booming and some people are allowed to get rich first by Deng Xiaoping’s policy while others are still stuck in the past time. The image of China in Qiu’s detective novels is vivid and profound. This thesis is going to talk about the image displayed by Qiu mainly in three ways. The first in the main character, Inspector Chen, who is like a symbol of that period of China and has some shadows of Qiu himself. The second lays on the readers’ participation, both from home and abroad. And the last one is Qiu’s home memory, which gives birth to a real image of China.

Keywords: Qiu Xiaolong; detective novel; the image of China

Contents

1. Introduction 1

1.1 The introduction of the author 1

1.2 The introduction of the backgournd 2

2. Literature Review 3

3. Inspector Chen, a shadow of Qiu Xiaolong 4

4. Readers' participation, from language to life 5

5. Qiu's home memory, old as wine, delicious as roast duck 7

6. Conclusion 15