Arthur H. Smith

Village Life in China - A Study in Sociology

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Village Life in China - A Study in Sociology is one of the author's fascinating written accounts of his experiences living and travelling China during the late 19th century, this particular volume focusing on the subject of rural life in the country. He wrote this book while living among the local population in small agricultural villages, noting down his observations and compiling them into this insightful glimpse of 19th-century rural China. Arthur Henderson Smith (1845 - 1932) was a missionary famous for spending 54 years doing missionary work in China. He wrote many books about his time there, presenting China to many foreign readers for… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-1-5287-0821-0
EAN: 9781528708210
Produktnummer: 29659505
Verlag: Read Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 378 S.
Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D2.2 cm 504 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 504

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.