The Body Image of Modern Chinese in the Perspective of Western Peregrinators

Since modern times, western peregrinators had described Chinese body image from the perspectives of dress and appearance, physical senses and spiritual characteristics. Dress and appearance were the most explicit symbols for western peregrinators to observe and understand the national image of China. Western peregrinators constructed a discourse system about Chinese body. Western peregrinators' conventional speech, the status quo of poor and weak country, the ideological influence of eastward transmission of western sciences, and the lack of body consciousness of Chinese people had comprehensively shaped the fatuous and pathological body image of Chinese people in the 19~(th) century.