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2025-03-30
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如果要说文中的晚清人跟当代中国人有何相同之处,只能说都是穷过来的。
评分本书是鲁迅先生的灵感来源。青年人读一读有个心理准备,你要去社会上即将和什么样特性的人相处,都在本书中有描绘。
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.
评分无话可说 作者真是……太浮夸了????
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.
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...
评分现在看来,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...
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...
评分一个独具慧眼细读中国经典的人,能在字里行间读出许多拐弯抹角地表达出来的欺骗、推诿和谎言。 ———明恩溥 《中国人的气质》是自己读的明恩溥第二本作品,他的另外一本译介过来的作品是《中国乡村生活》,他是一个传教士,在鲁北传教长达三十余年,在与中国接触过程中,对中...
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