摘要：Image and word, as expressed in pictures and works or texts, is an old relation in East and West.Inthisdialogue,wemovefromthegeneraltheoreticalcontext,moreexpressedin thearticlebyJ.HillisMiller(UniversityofCalifornia,Irvine),tomattersconcerningthe RenaissanceandBéroaldede Verville,LeVoyagedesprincesfortunez,assetoutby Tom Conley (Harvard), and Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu, as explored by Liu Hao (Tsinghua).