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The Otherness of Imagination——A cultural analysis of the Western Region images in Li Bai's poems

Zheng Liang

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There are abundant images of Western Region in Li Bai's poems,thus Western Region is the source of many of his poems.Through analyzing the Western Region images in Li Bai's poems,we can reach the conclusion that Western Region which works as the cultural otherness existing in the imagination of the collective imagination of people in the Central Plains.The Western Region imagination is the result of communication between the Western culture and Eastern culture.The relationship between the Western Region and the Central Plains is not only the political and geographical connection but also the cultural relationship of a part and the whole.

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There are abundant images of Western Region in Li Bai's poems,thus Western Region is the source of many of his poems.Through analyzing the Western Region images in Li Bai's poems,we can reach the conclusion that Western Region which works as the cultural otherness existing in the imagination of the collective imagination of people in the Central Plains.The Western Region imagination is the result of communication between the Western culture and Eastern culture.The relationship between the Western Region and the Central Plains is not only the political and geographical connection but also the cultural relationship of a part and the whole.

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There are abundant images of Western Region in Li Bai's poems,thus Western Region is the source of many of his poems.Through analyzing the Western Region images in Li Bai's poems,we can reach the conclusion that Western Region which works as the cultural otherness existing in the imagination of the collective imagination of people in the Central Plains.The Western Region imagination is the result of communication between the Western culture and Eastern culture.The relationship between the Western Region and the Central Plains is not only the political and geographical connection but also the cultural relationship of a part and the whole.

Key concepts: Poetry, Politics, Western culture, Literature, Western europe, History, Connection (principal bundle), Anthropology

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