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.
发表于2025-01-23
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我喜欢另一个版本的。 《中国人的素质》秦悦老师翻译的。 读起来非常顺畅! 大家去买那本! 这个版本不行。
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...
评分 评分不知道从何时开始,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...
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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.
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.
评分看过后真的有哀其不幸怒其不争之感,最可悲的是时至今日诸多现象依旧有迹可寻。不论明恩溥是否带着传教、文化殖民的思想倾向,客观地说,此书有值得我们反思之处。
评分读这本书差点气得背过气去,一半是因为写得在理,一半是因为西方凝视????
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????
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