The dilemma of writing the self of the East in the West

Abstract

In order to examine how the authors of Chinese origin write and portray China and to explore the external and internal reasons for such representation, which is a novel and understudied topic so far, this article analyses and summarises the images of Chinese characters in Siu Kam Wen's El tramo final from the perspective of orientalism and imagology. We find that, as a writer of Chinese origin, he creates some images that, to some extent, are progressive and go beyond the boundaries of the stereotypes of the time, but there are still many stereotypical traces in his work, which, apart from the objective elements, is largely intentional on the part of the author. Eastern writers and the image of the East are still intertwined by many factors.