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A study on "The Travel Journal and Pictures" : Li Danlin's image of foreign lands and cultures
(2022)
This article studies the hetero-images in premodern Chinese painter Li Danlin's travelogue "The Travel Journal and Pictures" with regard to Daniel-Henri Pageaux's and Jean-Marc Moura's theories. Li draws pictures of foreign lands and cultures to express his exoticist interest, following the tradition entailed from "The Classic of Mountains and Seas". He transforms the reality and constructs two forms of hetero-images: those of Western cultures by applying clichés, and stereotyped images of indigenous peoples as "Manyi." These hetero-images give us insights into premodern Chinese ideology and offer an example of Occidentalism as a Sinocentric form of ethnotype.
Saint Clare of Assisi was born in 1194 to a family of notable social standing. Against her family’s wishes, she left home at the age of eighteen to join the Order of Saint Francis. She soon established the convent of the Poor Ladies in Assisi, which later became officially recognized as the Second Franciscan Order, and went on to govern it for 40 years. Like Saint Francis, who died in 1226 and was officially declared a saint in 1228, her canonization also took place only two years after her death in 1253, thereby demonstrating the tremendous impact she had on her contemporaries. ...