在“报刊文明”研究思潮强调一手资料的影响下，继承西方尤其是法国的中国形象研究方法论及相关理论，从文学文化史的角度分析 1955—1960 年间发表在《法兰西观察家》和《快报》上的与中国相关的文章，呈现出 1950 年代中期这个关键时间节点西方重塑中国形象的一个侧面。虽然，只能借此触摸社会想象意义上西方中国形象叙事的冰山一角，但对历史现场的重建和对历史感觉的恢复，不仅还原出这一形象得以不断重塑和完善的方式——对遥远他者的想象与异化、对客观真实多角度的理解与刻画、对社会主义建设深入的观察与报道等，更让我们清晰地了解到“中国形象”如何通过参与权力话语体系的转型，进而影响社会人类学视域下 20 世纪中叶法国文化文学史的演变。

Influenced by the research trend of “newspaper civilization” and based on the inheritance of the research on China’s image in the West, especially in France, the analysis of China-related articles published in FranceObservateur and L’Express from the perspective of literary and cultural history in the period of 1955-1960, can present a side of how the West reshaped China’s image in the mid-1950s. Although we can only touch the tip of the iceberg of the Western narrative of China’s image in the sense of social imagination, the reconstruction of the historical scene and the restoration of the historical sensibility not only restore the ways in which this image has been continuously reshaped and perfected—imagining and alienating the distant other, understanding and portraying the objective reality from multiple angles, and making in-depth observations and reports on the construction of socialism, etc., we can also see how the Western image of China has been continuously reshaped and perfected in the mid-1950s. In-depth observation and coverage of socialist construction, etc., they also offer a clearer understanding of how the “image of China” participated in the transformation of the discourse of power. This participation, in turn, influenced the evolution of French cultural and literary history in the mid-20th century within the realm of social anthropology.