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发表于2024-12-23
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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.
无话可说 作者真是……太浮夸了????
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。
评分直接点明了一些模模糊糊、大家默认的问题,但同时要警惕其中的傲慢与偏见。
评分by Arthur Henderson Smith
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
评分一个独具慧眼细读中国经典的人,能在字里行间读出许多拐弯抹角地表达出来的欺骗、推诿和谎言。 ———明恩溥 《中国人的气质》是自己读的明恩溥第二本作品,他的另外一本译介过来的作品是《中国乡村生活》,他是一个传教士,在鲁北传教长达三十余年,在与中国接触过程中,对中...
评分不知道从何时开始,我们都必须要和别人扯几句“中国人的劣根性”,这似乎成为划分自己与那些随地吐痰、大声喧哗、光着膀子走在大街上的低素质人群的重要标准。 前两天先生发我一个笑话。 『昨天我去买票,一个小伙子直接插队站在我前面。我问他:“你这个人怎么不排队啊?”他...
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。
评分“美国罗斯福总统最喜欢的枕边书。”,本书的封面上这样写着,然后当我把全书翻完,这句话反倒成为一种讽刺。 读过一部分《费正清中国回忆录》,以记录历史事件为主,但也多次提到中国人的虚伪, 这种虚伪体现在普通老百姓的日常为人处事之道,也体现在当时的高层政治斗争,彼...
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