The construction of a national image requires the interpretation not only from self-perspective but also from the contrast and reflection through the perspective of other countries. The film Dragon Seed, telling a story about the Anti-Fascist struggle of Chinese people, is adapted from the novel Dragon Seed written by Pearl S. Buck and produced by the famous American film company MGM. By analyzing the pictures in the movie and the plot of the film, this paper explains how the Chinese image is constructed in the West from the perspectives of the family image, female image, farmers' image, and citizen image comprehensively. The major findings are as follows: first, this movie intends to construct Chinese image in a positive way for commercial and political purposes, but to some extent, it vilifies Chinese image unconsciously; second, Americans intend to construct a new and positive Chinese image with political purposes but their subconscious political and cultural superiority makes the Chinese image unfaithful to the original in fact. The intention of this paper to study the Chinese image and its construction in the movie Dragon Seed is to find out how this film builds a Chinese image that meets the western aesthetic appeal and ideological needs. Thus, this research would be very helpful to construct a positive Chinese image overseas and to provide a reference for Chinese culture to go out.