Occidental Travel Notes is through exchanges⋅fusion and conflict during the trip, to discuss the West, and reflects the self. In short, China is pursuing modernization of the nation in a sense of national identity and sense of urgency, and finding th ...
Occidental Travel Notes is through exchanges⋅fusion and conflict during the trip, to discuss the West, and reflects the self. In short, China is pursuing modernization of the nation in a sense of national identity and sense of urgency, and finding the identity of the nation in a sense of crisis. Cultural pride of the crisis is a sense of cultural identity crisis,this crisis will be to what degree, will be massive cultural change. This is From the end of the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China of the modern trend of thought and practice of the historic opportunity. For example, the identity of the Chinese traditional literati, attitudes toward criticism of Western civilization, modern tendencies, etc.. That's what China has been gradually recognized his own inferiority and crisis, and overcome this crisis and explore modern process. The end of the Qing Dynasty’s Occidental Travel Notes on sense of inferiority, sense of crisis consciousness of identity, culture and reflects the national superiority, by A and B between tolerance and rejection process, out of the complex and diverse types of features. From 斌椿 ≪乘槎筆記≫to 梁啓超≪新大陸遊記≫, their views on western landscapes, climate, objects, and science tend to be similar, but there is a big difference in the views of Western institutions and cultures. On the one hand is due to the author. On the other hand, because different era in which the author's personal background, education and ideas on how big the difference. The value of the works of literature were different. Among them, the travel essays written by the envoys or bureaucrats have the characteristics of official documents. They could not describe the excessive description of western objects, and the sentences were relatively stiff. Fortunately, literature written by writers whose literary attainments are profound and open-minded are excellent. Personal travel essays is more liberal in terms of content and form. They viewed the western scenery from the perspective of travelers and looked into Western society as a modern value.