THE CHINESE IMAGE OF THE CULTURAL “OTHER” ON THE EXAMPLE OF MAUGHAM’S WORK

Abstract

The article reflects features of representation of the Chinese image of the cultural “other” on the example of individual works by S. Maugham. The scientific significance of the study is due to the fact that despite the fact that the works of S. Maugham have been studied quite well at this point in time, and features of images that are “cross-cutting” for the works of this author have been repeatedly analyzed, the Chinese image of the cultural “other” quite infrequently becomes the subject of scientific research of scientists in the field of literary criticism, theory and practice of translation, linguistics, as well as related disciplines. Accordingly, it seems appropriate to fill this gap. The task of the study is to analyze features of the Chinese image of the cultural “other” on the example of such works by S. Maugham as “East of Suez” and “On a Chinese Screen” (1922). The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that the authors analyze features of functioning of the Chinese image of the cultural “other” in the above-mentioned works by S. Maugham and make a conclusion about features of functioning of the analyzed image in the listed works of S. Maugham.