Abstract

Speaking of the images of western vampire and Chinese corpse or Jiangshi (“僵尸”）, the older generations often feel them dreadful, horrible while most of the young generations may be curious and interested about them. Both of them have a long history in Western and Chinese cultures, which are unique and bright in pieces of art. Although vampire and Jiangshi have similarities in many aspects, there are different development situation in modern era.
The vampire has become a hot phrase and its culture has spread around the world,  making vampire constitute a dominant part of popular culture. Chinese corpse culture also has its own features, especially the boom of Jiangshi movies in 1980s, but after that period, it began to disappear in people's vision. Therefore, more and more researches at home and abroad are paying attention to analyzing the image changes or cultural connotations in vampire culture, or the characteristics of Jiangshi movies in Hong Kong. Few studies have been carried out on the comparison of cultural differences and similarities between western vampire and Chinese corpse, and that is just what this paper attempts to write about.
Through analyzing the cultural differences and similarities between the two cultures from several aspects, this paper intends to attract people's attention to Chinese traditional culture, and realize the present situation of development of Chinese special cultures. Meanwhile, it will be of help for learning the method of analyzing two kinds of culture in different areas.

Key words: western vampire; Chinese corpse; cultural differences and similarities; comparative analysis

摘  要

    谈及西方吸血鬼和中国的僵尸形象时，年龄大的人们常常觉得他们恐怖吓人，与此相反，年轻一代表示出感兴趣和好奇。众所周知，中国僵尸形象与西方吸血鬼形象在中西文化中分别有着悠久的历史，在艺术作品中各自都表现出一道独特亮丽的风景线。虽然两者文化在许多方面有着相似点，但在现代的发展现状中却各不相同。
    吸血鬼变成了一个热门词，其文化在全世界范围内广泛传播, 这使它成为流行文化中不可缺少的一部分。中国僵尸文化也有自身的特点，特别是80年代僵尸电影的繁荣，但那段时期过后，僵尸文化开始慢慢从人们的视野中消失。因此，越来越多的国内外研究把注意力放在吸血鬼的形象改变及内涵的分析上，或者以香港80年代僵尸电影的特点为切入点进行分析。目前很少学者把西方吸血鬼文化与中国僵尸文化异同当作主题研究，这就为本篇论文的撰写提供了可行性。
本文通过多个角度分析对比中西两种特殊文化的异同，目的在于引发人们对当代中国特色文化的发展现状产生思考，同时，也有助于学会分析掌握对两种不同地区文化进行对比的方法。

关键词：吸血鬼文化；中国僵尸文化；文化异同；对比分析