《中国龙的发明：近现代中国形象的域外变迁》
《中国龙的发明：近现代中国形象的域外变迁》 is the [[ShiAidong|施爱东]] book recommended in 127. 闲聊十二生肖之龙：神奇动物在哪里. The episode uses it as the main reference for the claim that the dragon’s modern Chinese-national meaning was made through a long image-history process rather than inherited unchanged from antiquity.
The book matters to the wiki because it gives Dragon National Symbol Invention / 龙的民族象征发明 a source anchor. The episode’s path through missionary translation, European chinoiserie, nineteenth-century caricature, the Qing Dragon Flag / 大清龙旗, merchant display, totemist theory, 闻一多 / Wen Yiduo, and [[DescendantsOfTheDragon|《龙的传人》]] is presented as part of this broader argument about modern Chinese image formation.
Key Claims
- The book is recommended as the best extension source for the episode’s dragon-symbol argument.
- Its title captures the episode’s key move: “invention” does not mean fabrication from nothing, but historical transformation of inherited images.
- The source treats the dragon’s modern national meaning as a product of both foreign image circulation and domestic political need.
Connections
- 施爱东 / Shi Aidong - author.
- [[ChineseDragon|龙]], Dragon National Symbol Invention / 龙的民族象征发明, and Cross-Cultural Dragon Translation / 龙与 Dragon 的跨文化翻译 - central subject and interpretive frame.
- Qing Dragon Flag / 大清龙旗, Totemism And Nationalism / 图腾主义与民族主义, and [[DescendantsOfTheDragon|《龙的传人》]] - major downstream symbol stages discussed in the source.