Chinese Characteristics 在线电子书 图书标签: 中国人 中国 中国研究 A.H.Smith 传教士 文化 社会 Sinology
发表于2025-02-11
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by Arthur Henderson Smith
评分by Arthur Henderson Smith
评分"Smith aimed to be free of dogmatism and arrogance. Readers can judge how successful he was."
评分无话可说 作者真是……太浮夸了????
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.
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.
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.
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...
评分这是一本鲁迅先曾极力推荐过的书。 读过之后我 想了很多,在此与大家交流。 书中的主要思想,说穿了就是对两中文化的对比,最后得出的结论当然是那个已经被我们完全接受的,西方文明优于中国文明,中国人有劣根性。 这样的话我们已经认定为真理,并且将其作为中国之所以贫穷...
评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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