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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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这勉强算个读后感，因为读完大脑拼凑不出清晰的脉络关系。 现在大家喜欢旅行，无论国内国外，通常选择与自己平时生活不同的地方，完后带回许多照片，习惯性地以一个旁观者的姿态向他人讲述和评论所见所闻。当所去的地方“落后”于自己的生活时，人们很容易俯视评判。如果是个...
评分 评分 评分一本美国传教士写的书，已经100多年了。作者名叫Athur Smith，百度一下知道有个中国名字明恩溥。有两个翻译版本，我看的是梁顺根译的。英文书名应该是《Chinese Characteristies》，感觉译作"中国人的性格"更好一些，要不然又有人慨叹“中国人素质低”了。果不其然，百度相...
评分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...
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非常独特的看中国文化的视角，虽然有失偏颇但有独到之处！
评分非常独特的看中国文化的视角，虽然有失偏颇但有独到之处！
评分Many misunderstandings in a kind view.
评分非常独特的看中国文化的视角，虽然有失偏颇但有独到之处！
评分如果要说文中的晚清人跟当代中国人有何相同之处，只能说都是穷过来的。
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