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2025-04-17
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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by Arthur Henderson Smith
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
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~
评分又是“意图”与“效果”之间产生舛错的历史遗迹之一。在注意到“Christian civilization will have to win its way among a skeptical and ingenious people”之时,是否也应同时注意到是书扉页第一句引用即是“四海之内,皆兄弟也”呢?——遗迹的纹理质地是驳杂的。
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.
作为一个在中国山东生活了多年的美国传教士,他对中国人素质的评价可谓贴切而中肯。读过这本书会发现,中国国民素质中最基本的一些因子,在今日仍然表现在社会生活的各个方面,可以解释很多现象和问题。 另外,明恩傅在痛批中国人各种陋习的同时,也深爱中国这一方土地和人们。...
评分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...
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...
评分作为一个在中国山东生活了多年的美国传教士,他对中国人素质的评价可谓贴切而中肯。读过这本书会发现,中国国民素质中最基本的一些因子,在今日仍然表现在社会生活的各个方面,可以解释很多现象和问题。 另外,明恩傅在痛批中国人各种陋习的同时,也深爱中国这一方土地和人们。...
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