西方语境下的中国人形象历来都是文化上的“他者”。鸦片战争之后很长的一段时间里,无论在电影中还是文学作品里,中国人的形象更为呆板与固化,西方电影里的中国人形象不是邪恶残忍就是软弱可欺。早期电影发明者爱迪生所在的公司,在实验电影初期就拍摄了连环小短片《中国洗衣店场景》,所反映的就是华人工人与白人警察追逐的场面。后来美国出台了排华法案,中国人的形象被极大的扭曲。根据英国作家萨克斯·侯麦小说改编的系列电影《傅满洲》中,傅满洲就 The Chinese image in the western context has always been the cultural “other ”. For a long time after the Opium War, the image of the Chinese in both films and literary works became more rigid and solidified. The image of the Chinese people in Western movies was not cruel and evil. The company where Edison, an early film inventor, was located, shot a series of short stories called “China’s Laundry Scene” in the early period of the experimental film, which is a scene chased by Chinese workers and white police. Later, the United States introduced the Exclusion Act, and the image of the Chinese people has been greatly distorted. According to the series of movies “Fu Man Chau” adapted from the British writer Sacks Houmai novels, Fu Manchu