晚清“小说界革命”背景下，域外航海叙事成为重塑国民精神的中介。本文以《航海述奇》为例，运用形象学理论探讨译者钱锴如何赋予辛巴达“后续生命”。研究发现，辛巴达从逐利商人向冒险英雄的跃迁体现为伦理上的“义利并举”、叙事上的经世话语渗透及精神上的现代蜕变。此重构本质上是救亡图存下国民性改造的文学实践，映射了近代中国重塑世界观与主体性的启蒙诉求，为审视近代文化转型提供了独特的形象学视阈。

In the context of the late Qing “Fiction Revolution”, overseas maritime narratives served as a vital medium for reshaping the national spirit. Focusing on Hanghai Shuqi (The Story of Sindbad the Sailor in One Thousand and One Nights), this study employs comparative imagology to explore how the translator, Qian Kai, endowed Sinbad with an “afterlife”. The research shows that Sinbad’s transformation from a profit-seeking merchant into an adventurous hero is articulated through an ethical reconfiguration that combines righteousness and profit, the penetration of statecraft discourse into the narrative, and a spiritual turn toward modern subjectivity. This reconstruction is essentially a literary practice aimed at reforming national character under the imperative of national survival, reflecting the enlightenment-oriented quest to reshape worldviews and subjectivity in modern China, and offering an imagological lens for re-evaluating the cultural transformation of modern China.