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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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中国人，近百余年来，意识形态和统治阶层不停轮换，但其根本性格却一直根深蒂固，从未改变。所以，尽管此书写于上上世纪末期，100多年过去了，你仍会觉得，它写的竟然就是今天。
评分在西西弗囫囵吞枣的把书一口气看完了，不可谓不痛快。 在打开这本书之前，请你注意！如果你是怀着逮出妖魔化中国的心理抠作者字眼的话，请止步！ 作者作为一个来中国传教的美国人，在中国生活了50余年。可以说在一个离他的上帝大老远，而且放眼望不到一个同胞的地方渡过了大半...
评分 评分中国人，近百余年来，意识形态和统治阶层不停轮换，但其根本性格却一直根深蒂固，从未改变。所以，尽管此书写于上上世纪末期，100多年过去了，你仍会觉得，它写的竟然就是今天。
评分在西西弗囫囵吞枣的把书一口气看完了，不可谓不痛快。 在打开这本书之前，请你注意！如果你是怀着逮出妖魔化中国的心理抠作者字眼的话，请止步！ 作者作为一个来中国传教的美国人，在中国生活了50余年。可以说在一个离他的上帝大老远，而且放眼望不到一个同胞的地方渡过了大半...
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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
评分本书是鲁迅先生的灵感来源。青年人读一读有个心理准备，你要去社会上即将和什么样特性的人相处，都在本书中有描绘。
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