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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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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...
評分我自认为为已经脱离了一些低级趣味。 但看完这本书，突然发现在中国文化中成长起来的我，还是没有逃脱《中国人德行》中描述的一些缺点。 在乎面子 节俭到不计算得失 无效率的勤劳 缺乏时间观念（容易迟到） 忽视精确 不讲究舒适和方便
評分 評分我自认为为已经脱离了一些低级趣味。 但看完这本书，突然发现在中国文化中成长起来的我，还是没有逃脱《中国人德行》中描述的一些缺点。 在乎面子 节俭到不计算得失 无效率的勤劳 缺乏时间观念（容易迟到） 忽视精确 不讲究舒适和方便
用戶評價
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.
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.
评分非常獨特的看中國文化的視角，雖然有失偏頗但有獨到之處！
评分有趣之處在於，許多來自西方的評價認為一來作者傳教士的身份和有限的經曆使書中的觀點有失偏頗，二來時過境遷，書中內容早已不適閤描述現今的中國；而很多中國人卻認為，書中所描述的特性如今依然存在，仍然需要反思和自省。
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