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Arthur H. Smith, D.D., was born in Vernon, Connecticut and graduated from Beloit College before serving with the Wisconsin infantry for a few months during the Civil War. A college friend called Smith an accomplished storyteller and "the funniest man I ever knew."
After he attended Andover Theological Seminary, in 1872 the American Board of the Commissioners for Foreign Missions sent him and his wife, Emma Jane Dickenson, to China. They lived in the north China village of Panjiazhuang for several decades, aspiring to fit in as "natives." Arthur Smith steeped himself in Chinese classical literature and folklore, leading to a stream of articles and books, including Proverbs and Common Sayings from the Chinese (1886; 1916); Village Life in China: A Study in Sociology (1899); and China in Convulsion (1901), a two-volume study of the Boxer Uprising.
- 中国人
- 中国
- 中国研究
- A.H.Smith
- 传教士
- 文化
- 社会
- Sinology
Chinese Characteristics (1894) was the most widely read American work on China until Pearl Buck’s The Good Earth (1931). It was the first to take up the task of analyzing Chinese society in the light of "scientific" social and racial theory.
Written as a series of pungent and sometimes comic essays for a Shanghai newspaper in the late 1880s, Chinese Characteristics was among the five most read books on China among foreigners living in China as late as World War I and it was read by Americans at home as a wise and authentic handbook. The book was quickly translated into Japanese and just as quickly into Chinese. It was accepted by the Chinese — and has maintained its authoritative status for over a century — as the quintessential portrait of the Chinese race drawn by a Westerner.
Lu Xun, the most prominent Chinese cultural critic of the early twentieth century, urged his students to study and ponder Smith’s message, which was very widely debated in Chinese student circles. Within the last decade (the 1990s), two different, new translations of Smith’s book were published in China and both editions have enjoyed wide distribution and readership. In the West, particularly since World War II, Chinese Characteristics has been widely quoted (though seldom read) as an example of Sino-myopia and Orientalism. Despite such Western pseudo-intellectual bias, Smith’s arguments retain the power to provoke critical introspection among Chinese and, for the honest, among Westerners as well.
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我自认为为已经脱离了一些低级趣味。 但看完这本书，突然发现在中国文化中成长起来的我，还是没有逃脱《中国人德行》中描述的一些缺点。 在乎面子 节俭到不计算得失 无效率的勤劳 缺乏时间观念（容易迟到） 忽视精确 不讲究舒适和方便
评分作为一个在中国山东生活了多年的美国传教士，他对中国人素质的评价可谓贴切而中肯。读过这本书会发现，中国国民素质中最基本的一些因子，在今日仍然表现在社会生活的各个方面，可以解释很多现象和问题。 另外，明恩傅在痛批中国人各种陋习的同时，也深爱中国这一方土地和人们。...
评分作为一个在中国山东生活了多年的美国传教士，他对中国人素质的评价可谓贴切而中肯。读过这本书会发现，中国国民素质中最基本的一些因子，在今日仍然表现在社会生活的各个方面，可以解释很多现象和问题。 另外，明恩傅在痛批中国人各种陋习的同时，也深爱中国这一方土地和人们。...
评分现在看来，明恩溥的这本书应该叫做《19世纪的中国人》，里面说到中国人的很多特点，现在都趋于消失了。当然，在某些贫困落后的地方可能还会看到。 比如说到中国人节俭，使用任何一块布料，都能充分使之物尽其用。但现在，即便一个不那么喜欢炫富的人，都不可能节俭至此（家中...
评分现在看来，明恩溥的这本书应该叫做《19世纪的中国人》，里面说到中国人的很多特点，现在都趋于消失了。当然，在某些贫困落后的地方可能还会看到。 比如说到中国人节俭，使用任何一块布料，都能充分使之物尽其用。但现在，即便一个不那么喜欢炫富的人，都不可能节俭至此（家中...
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满本的客观偏见，150年前这种思想水平的西方人应该算他们中进步的了吧，呵 呵
评分first repulsed then got into. he did have made some truth claims about the traits at the time specific to the ppl he spoke to. good observation! but isn't it cruel to change a people completely, although we are probably doing it all the time, or tempted.
评分我至今还希望有人翻出史密斯（明恩溥）的《支那人的气质》（《中国人的气质》）来。看了那些，而自省，分析，明白哪几点说得对；变革，挣扎，自做功夫，却不求别人的原谅和称赞，来证明究竟怎样的是中国人。
评分看过后真的有哀其不幸怒其不争之感，最可悲的是时至今日诸多现象依旧有迹可寻。不论明恩溥是否带着传教、文化殖民的思想倾向，客观地说，此书有值得我们反思之处。
评分"Smith aimed to be free of dogmatism and arrogance. Readers can judge how successful he was."
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