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Myth of "the Great Wall of China": An analysis of Kafka’s Sinologist Discourse
Abstract: The strategy of criticism is to discover the dynamic relations of individual text and its discursive formation. The short story by Kafka represents the myth of " The Great Wall of China" in the discourse of "Sinologism". An analysis of it can show its poetic and Sinologist process to construct the images of China as a cultural other.
keywords:Absurdist story, Cultural symbol, Orientalism, Characteristics of China