| Acknowledgements | 第6-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8页 |
| Introduction | 第10-15页 |
| Chapter 1 Wind from East of Suez——Evolution of the Image of China in European Literature | 第15-27页 |
| 1.1 The Positive Description of China: From the Travel Books of Sir JohnMandeville to the Imagined Correspondence of Lowes Dickinson | 第15-20页 |
| 1.2 The Negative Description of China: From the Account of Macartney to theAppearance of Fu Manchu | 第20-23页 |
| 1.3 Maugham’s Description of China: Remembrance of the Past | 第23-27页 |
| Chapter 2 Figures Displayed on a Chinese Screen——Maugham’s Impression of Chinese People | 第27-38页 |
| 2.1 Yellow Face Coolies: Demonstration of Buddhist Spirit | 第27-30页 |
| 2.2 Attractive Women: Embodiment of Ancient Chinese Imagination | 第30-33页 |
| 2.3 Knowledgeable Scholars: Representatives of Chinese Ideology | 第33-37页 |
| Summing Up | 第37-38页 |
| Chapter 3 Uncover the Painted Veil over Chinese Culture——Maugham’s Utopian Imagination of China | 第38-49页 |
| 3.1 Pastoral Landscapes: the Opposite Side of Modernization | 第38-41页 |
| 3.2 Works of Art: Objects Embody Ancient Wisdom | 第41-44页 |
| 3.3 Idle Taoism: Chinese Wisdom to Explain the World | 第44-48页 |
| Summing Up | 第48-49页 |
| Conclusion | 第49-51页 |
| Bibliography | 第51-54页 |
