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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.
- 中國人
- 中國
- 中國研究
- A.H.Smith
- 傳教士
- 文化
- 社會
- 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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讀後感
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...
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Arthur.H.Smith寫的《Chinese Characteristics》，新世界出版社翻譯成《中國人德行》。 書腰上介紹：“一部魯迅先生力薦立此存照的書籍，一部逼真描述中國人德行的書籍，一位在華居住22年的美國人的驚動世界之作。” 總之是本從前老美從自己覺得了解的角度看中囯人，然後中國...
用戶評價
看過後真的有哀其不幸怒其不爭之感，最可悲的是時至今日諸多現象依舊有跡可尋。不論明恩溥是否帶著傳教、文化殖民的思想傾嚮，客觀地說，此書有值得我們反思之處。
评分本書是魯迅先生的靈感來源。青年人讀一讀有個心理準備，你要去社會上即將和什麼樣特性的人相處，都在本書中有描繪。
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Many misunderstandings in a kind view.
评分"Smith aimed to be free of dogmatism and arrogance. Readers can judge how successful he was."
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