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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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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...
評分 評分讨论中国人的民族性的声音多少年来不绝于耳，咱不说远的，就说说近一些的。无论是鲁迅、胡适、林语堂，还是柏杨、龙应台、三毛，当然，这都是明着说的。放在作品里说的就更多，金庸老先生从古代说，莫言从乡村说，钱钟书从知识分子身上说等等等等，但是，关起门来咱自家人...
評分最近看了一本书，很好，书名叫《中国人的脸谱》(Chinese Characteristics)。有了网络以后，很少看书，能从头到尾看完整的更少了，但这本书做到了。 作者原名Arthur Henderson Smith（1845-1932），生于美国，中文名明恩溥。1872年来到中国，随后在中国生活达54年，后回美国安...
評分讨论中国人的民族性的声音多少年来不绝于耳，咱不说远的，就说说近一些的。无论是鲁迅、胡适、林语堂，还是柏杨、龙应台、三毛，当然，这都是明着说的。放在作品里说的就更多，金庸老先生从古代说，莫言从乡村说，钱钟书从知识分子身上说等等等等，但是，关起门来咱自家人...
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讀這本書差點氣得背過氣去，一半是因為寫得在理，一半是因為西方凝視????
评分讀這本書差點氣得背過氣去，一半是因為寫得在理，一半是因為西方凝視????
评分by Arthur Henderson Smith
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.
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