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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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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“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...
评分 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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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Very concrete writing.I know more about traditional chinese culture especially its dark &ugly side. It helps me understand more about the people around me.
评分有趣之处在于，许多来自西方的评价认为一来作者传教士的身份和有限的经历使书中的观点有失偏颇，二来时过境迁，书中内容早已不适合描述现今的中国；而很多中国人却认为，书中所描述的特性如今依然存在，仍然需要反思和自省。
评分西方人眼中的中国人~写于清末时期，有些言论颇为offensive，但客观来看，有些对中国人性格的描述还是比较一针见血的~换个角度看自己，也可有些反思~
评分满本的客观偏见，150年前这种思想水平的西方人应该算他们中进步的了吧，呵 呵
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