文学与中国的关系,牵涉到现在世界范围内流行的国家形象学。在全球化时代里,一个国家的形象建基于经济硬实力,更关乎文化软实力。通常我们认为,一个国家形象的建构与重构,是一种社会政治实践活动,但不能忽视的是,它其实还是一种话语行动,或者说是符号的编码与解码、传播与接受活动。显然,在众多的话语或符号形式中,文学正是一种能够充分发挥其国家形象建构功能的文字符号审美系统。事实上,我们对世界上许多国家的形象 The relationship between literature and China involves the current national image studies worldwide. In the era of globalization, the image of a country is based on economic hard power and more about cultural soft power. Generally, we think that the construction and reconstruction of a country’s image is a kind of social and political practice. However, it can not be ignored that it is actually a discourse operation or symbol encoding and decoding, communication and reception. Obviously, in numerous discourse or symbolic forms, literature is just a kind of aesthetic system of writing symbols that can give full play to its national image construction function. In fact, we have the image of many countries in the world