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发表于2024-09-17
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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.
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.
評分by Arthur Henderson Smith
評分又是“意圖”與“效果”之間産生舛錯的曆史遺跡之一。在注意到“Christian civilization will have to win its way among a skeptical and ingenious people”之時,是否也應同時注意到是書扉頁第一句引用即是“四海之內,皆兄弟也”呢?——遺跡的紋理質地是駁雜的。
評分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.
評分滿本的客觀偏見,150年前這種思想水平的西方人應該算他們中進步的瞭吧,嗬 嗬
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。
評分 評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。
評分 評分现在看来,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...
Chinese Characteristics pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024