翟理斯用亲历者视角还原了19世纪后半叶中国的社会状况,比较客观地回应了当时西方世界对中国的妖魔化想象。 Herbert Giles witnessed the Chinese society in the later part of 19th century. This book provides evidence against the demonized imagination of the West about China.
內容簡介:
《中国札记》汇编了翟理斯关于中国基本情况介绍的文章,内容涉及女人的地位、礼节、文学、医学、法学等。
關於作者:
翟理斯(Herbert Allen Giles,18451935),1867年来到中国,历任天津、宁波、汉口、广州、汕头、厦门、福州、上海、淡水等地英国领事馆翻译、领事等职,归国后任剑桥大学教授。 Herbert Allen Giles 8 December 184513 February 1935 was a British diplomat and sinologist who was the professor of Chinese at Cambridge University for 35 years.
目錄:
PREFACETHE DEATH OF AN EMPERORTHE POSITION OF WOMENETIQUETTEETIQUETTE, NO. IILITERATUREEDUCATIONAL LITERATUREDENTISTRYMEDICAL SCIENCEMEDICAL SCIENCE, NO. IILOAN SOCIETIESGUILDSPAWNBROKERSPOSTAL SERVICESLANGFORTUNE-TELLINGGAMES AND GAMBLINGJURISPRUDENCEJURISPRUDENCE, NO. IIBUDDHIST PRIESTSRESPECT FOR THE WRITTEN CHARACTERSUPERSTITIONNATURAL PHENOMENACELEBRATION OF THE NEW YEARTHE FEAST OF LANTERNSOPIUM SMOKINGTHIEVINGLYINGSUICIDETORTUREFNG-SHUIMONEYA DINNER-PARTYFEMALE CHILDRENTRAVELPREDESTINATIONJOURNALISMFUNERALSINQUESTSINQUESTS, NO. IICHRISTIANITYANTI-CHRISTIAN LYRICSCONCLUSION
內容試閱:
The following Sketches owe their existence chiefly to frequent peregrinations in Chinese cities, with pencil and note-book in hand. Some of them were written for my friend Mr. F. H. Balfour of Shanghai, and by him published in the columns of the Celestial Empire. These have been revised and partly re-written; others appear now for the first time.It seems to be generally believed that the Chinese, as a nation, are an immoral, degraded race; that they are utterly dishonest, cruel, and in every way depraved; that opium, a more terrible scourge than gin, is now working frightful ravages in their midst; and that only the forcible diffusion of Christianity can save the Empire from speedy and overwhelming ruin. An experience of eight years has taught me that, with all their faults, the Chinese are a hardworking, sober, and happy people, occupying an intermediate place between the wealth and culture, the vice and misery of the West.H. A. G.Sutton, Surrey, 1st November 1875.