| Abstract： |
The image of China from a foreign perspective has always been a research topic for scholars. At the beginning of the 20th century, some french adventurers traveled across the ocean, set foot on this mysterious land for the first time, felt China's unique culture, recorded what they saw and thought with their
notes, brought everything they experienced back to France, and let more people witness the real China.
Victor Segalen and Andre Malraux are the representatives of this group of French writers. This paper selects two works of Victor Segalen’s René Leys and Malraux’s The Humain Condition for research. René Leys
explores China at the end of the Qing Dynasty from the mouth of a foreign explorer, while The Humain
Condition rarely describes the revolutionary changes in China, which has a far-reaching impact. The author will analyze the Chinese image in french literature, analyze the Chinese society and characters described in the two books, combine the author's life experience and the social background at that time, excavate the differences between the Chinese image they reveal and the real China, and explore the
reasons behind it. |
