章节目录
List of Illustrations p. 7 Introduction p. 9 I. Face p. 16 II. Economy p. 19 III. Industry p. 27 IV. Politeness p. 35 V. The Disregard of Time p. 41 VI. The Disregard of Accuracy p. 48 VII. The Talent for Misunderstanding p. 58 VIII. The Talent for Indirection p. 65 IX. Flexible Inflexibility p. 74 X. Intellectual Turbidity p. 82 XI. The Absence of Nerves p. 90 XII. Contempt for Foreigners p. 98 XIII. The Absence of Public Spirit p. 107 XIV. Conservatism p. 115 XV. Indifference to Comfort and Convenience p. 125 XVI. Physical Vitality p. 144 XVII. Patience and Perseverance p. 152 XVIII. Content and Cheerfulness p. 162 XIX. Filial Piety p. 171 XX. Benevolence p. 186 XXI. The Absence of Sympathy p. 194 XXII. Social Typhoons p. 217 XXIII. Mutual Responsibility and Respect for Law p. 226 XXIV. Mutual Suspicion p. 242 XXV. The Absence of Sincerity p. 266 XXVI. Polytheism, Pantheism, Atheism p. 287 XXVII. The Real Condition of China and Her Present Needs p. 314 Glossary p. 331 Index p. 333
内容简介
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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