王尔德是维多利亚时期著名的作家,受东方文化影响很深,他的唯一的一部长篇小说《道连.格雷的画像》里面充满了对东方不同国度的想象,比如把中国和日本当作他的审美乌托邦,把印度和澳大利亚当作淘金和罪犯的天堂,中东等国家充满异域情调,犹太人依然被鄙视和嘲讽。这些想象或者是为了批判当时的实用和功利主义,或者是为了彰显宗主国文化的优越性,让作品充满东方浪漫异域情调的同时,也让我们了解了作为宗主国文化的对立面“他者”的东方是如何被审视的。 Wilde was a famous writer in Victorian times and deeply influenced by Eastern culture. His only novel, “Portrait of Doug Gray,” is full of imagination of different orientations in the East, such as using China and Japan as his Aesthetic Utopia, India and Australia as a paradise for gold and criminals, the Middle East and other countries are exotic, Jews are still despised and ridiculed. These imaginations either criticize the utilitarianism at that time or demonstrate the superiority of the culture of the sovereign state so that the works are full of oriental romance and foreign sentiment while letting us know the opposite of the culture of the sovereign nation How the East is scrutinized.