Western Imagination(西方想象)研究综述
Western Imagination 西方想象 - However, other images also hold power over the Western imagination: Louise Levathes (1994) portrays Zheng He’s travels as trade missions and Gavin Menzies’s popularized Zheng He (2002) is first and foremost an explorer designed to be compared to Western explorers. [1] Kent also gives a concise reading of the different imaginaries that have come to shape our understanding of Cuba in the Western imagination. [2] She did some of this work in her earlier book, Muslims in the Western Imagination,1 and conveys that background in a useful shorthand that does not dominate the text. [3] From Sir John Mandeville to Joseph Conrad, Africa’s blank spaces on the map have been filled with monstrous creatures that fuel the western imagination. [4]然而，其他图像也影响了西方的想象：Louise Levathes (1994) 将郑和的旅行描绘成贸易使团，而 Gavin Menzies 广为人知的郑和 (2002) 首先是一个旨在与西方探险家相提并论的探险家。 [1] 肯特还简要解读了影响我们在西方想象中对古巴的理解的不同想象。 [2] 她在她早期的著作《西方想象中的穆斯林》1 中做了一些这样的工作，并以一种有用的速记方式传达了这一背景，这种速记并不占主导地位。 [3] 从约翰·曼德维尔爵士到约瑟夫·康拉德，非洲地图上的空白处充满了巨大的生物，激发了西方的想象力。 [4]