Chinese Characteristics
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 -…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-910736-88-3
- EAN: 9781910736883
- Produktnummer: 29344247
- Verlag: Eastbridge Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 362 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.5 cm 723 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken mit Schutzumschlag
- Gewicht: 723
Über den Autor
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.
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