豆花鱼The-Chine-Character中国人的性格
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The Chine Character
by Bertrand Rusll
There is a theory among Occidentals that the Chinaman is inscrutable, full of cret thoughts, and impossible for us to understand. It may be that a greater experience of China would have brought me to share this opinion; but I could e nothing to support it during the time when I was working in that country. I talked to the Chine as I should have talked to English people, and they answered me much as English people would have answered a Chine whom they considered educated and not wholly unintelligent. I do not believe in the myth of the "Subtle Oriental": I am convinced that in a game of mutual deception an Englishman or American can beat a Chine nine times out of ten. But as many comparatively poor Chine have dealing
s with rich white men, the game is often played only on one side. Then, no doubt, the white man is deceived and swindled; but not more than a Chine mandarin would be in London.
One of the most remarkable things about the Chine is their power of curing the affection of foreigners. Almost all Europeans like China, both tho who come only as tourists and tho who live there for many years. In spite of the Anglo-Japane Alliance, I can recall hardly a single Englishman in the Far East who liked the Japane as well as the Chine. Tho who have lived long among them tend to acquire their outlook and their standards. New arrivals are struck by obvious evils: the beggars, the terrible poverty, the prevalence of dia, the anarchy and corruption in politics. Every energetic Westerner feels at first a strong desire to reform the evils, and of cour they ought to be reformed.
注意事项图片But the Chine, even tho who are the victims of preventable misfortunes, show a vast passive indifference to the excitement of the foreigners; they wait for it to go
off, like the effervescence of soda-water. And gradually strange hesitations creep into the mind of the bewildered traveller; after a period of indignation, he begins to doubt all the maxims he has hitherto accepted without question. Is it really wi to be always guarding against future misfortune? Is it prudent to lo all enjoyment of the prent through thinking of the disasters that may come at some future date? Should our lives be pasd in building a mansion that we shall never have leisure to inhabit?经典诗词朗诵
The Chine answer the questions in the negative, and therefore have to put up with poverty, dia, and anarchy. But, to compensate for the evils, they have retained, as industrial nations have not, the capacity for civilized enjoyment, for leisure and laughter, for pleasure in sunshine and philosophical discour. The Chine, of all class, are more laughter-loving than any other race with which I am acquainted; they find amument in everything, and a dispute can always be softened by a joke.家庭教育心得
樱花的诗句
卡通公主简笔画I remember one hot day when a party of us were crossing the hills in chairs--the way was rough and very steep, the work for the coolies very vere. At the highest point of our journey, we stopped for ten minutes to let the men rest. Instantly they all sat in a row, brought out their pipes, and began to laugh among themlves as if they had not a care in the world. In any country that had learned the virtue of forethought, they would have devoted the moments to complaining of the heat, in order to increa their tip. We, being Europeans, spent the time worrying whether the automobile would be waiting for us at the right place. Well-to-do Chine would have started a discussion as to whether the univer moves in cycles or progress by a rectilinear motion; or they might have t to work to consider whether the truly virtuous man shows _complete_ lf-abnegation, or may, on occasion, consider his own interest.
One comes across white men occasionally who suffer under the delusion that China is not a civilized country. Such men have quite forgotten what constitutes civilization. It is true that there are no trams in Peking, and that the electric light is
反思自己的不足和改进poor. It is true that there are places full of beauty, which Europeans itch to make hideous by digging up coal. It is true that the educated Chinaman is better at writing poetry than at remembering the sort of facts which can be looked up in _Whitaker's Almanac_. A European, in recommending a place of residence, will tell you that it has a good train rvice; the best quality he can conceive in any place is that it should be easy to get away from. But a Chinaman will tell you nothing about the trains; if you ask, he will tell you wrong. What he tells you is that there is a palace built by an ancient emperor, and a retreat in a lake for scholars weary of the world, founded by a famous poet of the Tang dynasty. It is this outlook that strikes the Westerner as barbaric.
