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Village Life in China
TENTH THOUSAND
Chinese Characteristics
BY
Rev. ARTHUR H. SMITH, D.D.
For Twenty-six Years a Missionary of the American Board in China.
With Sixteen Illustrations from Photographs, an index and a Glossary.
800, decorated cloth, $1.25
From The Independent.
There is no glamour thrown over the race, neither is there failure to recognize those qualities that have made them so backward in civilization, so hostile to foreigners, so repugnant to many in our land. Everyone interested in China or the Chinese should read the book.
From The New York Times.
If we are not to accept the studies that missionaries have made of the Chinese, whose are we to accept? We do not mean the accounts of the seminary young man who, fresh from his studies, lives in China for a six-month, and then writes of his experiences, but of the men like the author of this volume, who has had a residence of twenty-two years in China.
Mr. Smith’s volume is a highly entertaining one, showing uncommon shrewdness, with keen analysis of character.
From The Critic.
There is all the difference between an intaglio in onyx and a pencil scrawl on paper to be discovered between Mr. Smith’s book and the printed prattle of the average globe-trotter. Our author’s work has been done, as it were, with a chisel and an emery wheel. He goes deeply beneath the surface.
From The Standard.
It is much the most interesting book upon China which we have ever read, and it is specially valuable as a practical commentary upon the national and social institutions of the Chinese, the natural effect of their long isolation, and the benumbing effect of such a religion as has in great part made them what they are.
From The Living Church.
That this is the most valuable account of the Chinese ever written is, we believe, generally acknowledged.
From The Missionary Review of the World.
Every chapter is a thesaurus of startling antithesis, humorous portraitures, acute observation and marvelous sagacity.... The book is most delightful reading, and will be found most fascinating. It is a mirror of Chinese characteristics, as its name indicates. Within its pages we have found a volume of aphorisms and sage sayings seldom embraced in such a book.—Rev. A. T. Pierson, D.D.
FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY
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Chinese Villagers at Home
Village Life in China
A STUDY IN SOCIOLOGY
BY
ARTHUR H. SMITH, D.D.
AUTHOR OF
“Chinese Characteristics”
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
New York Chicago Toronto
Fleming H. Revell Company
Publishers of Evangelical Literature
Copyright, 1899
by
FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY
Foreword
These chapters are written from the standpoint of one who, by an extended experience in China, has come to feel a profound respect for the numerous admirable qualities of the Chinese, and to entertain for many of them a high personal esteem. An unexampled past lies behind this great race, and before it there may lie a wonderful future. Ere that can be realized, however, there are many disabilities which must be removed. The longer one is acquainted with China, the more deeply is this necessity felt. Commerce, diplomacy, extension of political relations, and the growing contact with Occidental civilization have, all combined, proved totally inadequate to accomplish any such reformation as China needs.
The Chinese village is the empire in small, and when that has been surveyed, we shall be in a better condition to suggest a remedy for whatever needs amendment. It cannot be too often reiterated that the variety in unity in China is such, that affirmations should always be qualified with the implied limitation that they are true somewhere, although few of them may hold good everywhere. On the other hand, the unity in variety is such that a really typical Chinese fact, although of restricted occurrence, may not on that account be the less valuable.
China was never so much in the world’s thought as to-day, nor is there any apparent likelihood that the position of this empire will be less conspicuous at the opening of the twentieth century. Whatever helps to a better understanding of the Chinese people, is an aid to a comprehension of the Chinese problem. To that end this volume is intended as a humble contribution.
Acknowledgment.
The author desires to acknowledge his indebtedness to the Rev. Harlan P. Beach for his invaluable criticisms and the kindly services rendered in the proof-reading and piloting of this new voyager through the press.
For the use of original photographs from which engravings have been made, and are here published for the first time, the author and the publishers desire to acknowledge their obligations to Mr. Robert E. Speer, Mr. William Henry Grant, Albert Peck, M.D., Rev. W. C. Longden, and Miss J. G. Evans.
Contents
| PART I.—THE VILLAGE, ITS INSTITUTIONS, USAGES, AND PUBLIC CHARACTERS | |||
| CHAPTER | PAGE | ||
| Glossary | 11 | ||
| I. | The Chinese Village | 15 | |
| II. | Construction of Villages | 20 | |