Abstract: Six Records of a Floating Lifeis an autobiographical prose written by Shen Fu, a scholar in the Qing Dynasty. It is elegant and concise, rich and profound in connotation, and has high literary value and research significance. The sinologist Rainer Schwarz’s German translation of Six Records of a Floating Lifepublished in 1989 shows the spirit of the original work in a complete and detailed way, and at the same time adds a wealth of paratext information. From the perspective of Imagologie, it is of great significance and cultural value to explore the Chinese cultural image constructed by the German translation of Six Records of a Floating Life.