The Influence of Western Cultural Spirit Expectation on the Formation of Modern Chinese Landscape Image.

The formation of western national landscape image of China is closely related to the needs of western cultural spirit for China in this historical development stage. From the 13th to the 18th century, the West demanded that China, the "cultural other", play the role of landscape image of an ideal and beautiful country, so as to help the West establish the way forward. From the middle ages to the age of great geographical discovery to the Age of the Enlightenment, China's political, economic, social, cultural and historical context and the cultural spirit embodied in it are exactly in line with the expectations of the European social development and cultural spirit, which helps the West to form an ideal and beautiful image of China. From the 18th century to the 19th century, the utilization function of western image of China as "cultural other" also changed, and the western image of China began to go into a period of complete reversal. With the change of the western modern cultural spirit's expectation for China, the image of China of "imagining other", "beautiful other", "ideal other" and "inferior other" has been formed successively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]