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发表于2024-12-25
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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.
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.
西方人眼中的中国人~写于清末时期,有些言论颇为offensive,但客观来看,有些对中国人性格的描述还是比较一针见血的~换个角度看自己,也可有些反思~
评分Very concrete writing.I know more about traditional chinese culture especially its dark &ugly side. It helps me understand more about the people around me.
评分No student of history, no observant traveller who knows human nature, can fail to be impressed, to the point of deep awe, with the thought of the marvellous restraining power which Chinese morality has exerted upon the race from the earliest times until now. Whereas other nation have depended upon physical force, 蔡尼斯 have depended upon moral force.
评分又是“意图”与“效果”之间产生舛错的历史遗迹之一。在注意到“Christian civilization will have to win its way among a skeptical and ingenious people”之时,是否也应同时注意到是书扉页第一句引用即是“四海之内,皆兄弟也”呢?——遗迹的纹理质地是驳杂的。
评分"Smith aimed to be free of dogmatism and arrogance. Readers can judge how successful he was."
刚刚看到这本书还是在图书馆闲逛时不经意看到的。没想到翻开就难以放下,用了一个下午的时间看了大部分。看过之后的感觉是不解渴。 抛开作者的某些主观偏见,研究对象的久远,基础资料的完备性,以及其他影响作者结论的因素;其书本身是一个将问题呈现的书,但未提出解决办法...
评分 评分这是一本鲁迅先曾极力推荐过的书。 读过之后我 想了很多,在此与大家交流。 书中的主要思想,说穿了就是对两中文化的对比,最后得出的结论当然是那个已经被我们完全接受的,西方文明优于中国文明,中国人有劣根性。 这样的话我们已经认定为真理,并且将其作为中国之所以贫穷...
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...
评分我喜欢另一个版本的。 《中国人的素质》秦悦老师翻译的。 读起来非常顺畅! 大家去买那本! 这个版本不行。
Chinese Characteristics pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024