What the Imagology of Comparative Literature focuses on is the alien image in literature, that is the image of foreign people, besides that, foreign scenes, customs, concepts and Chinese image in oversea Chinese writing are also included.

Formulation of foreign images equals that of the cultural images,which epitomizes individually and collectively the unique cognition of foreign countries in cross-cultural discourses.

French scholars, in the absorption of new theories, have continued stressing the establishment of image studies as an independent b.