《西人中國紀事-中國和中國人（英）》是2018年五洲傳播出版社出版的圖書，作者是翟理斯。
基本介紹
- 書名：西人中國紀事-中國和中國人（英）
- 作者：翟理斯
- 出版社： 五洲傳播出版社
- 出版時間：2018年7月1日
- ISBN：9787508532189
內容簡介,圖書目錄,作者簡介,
內容簡介
《中國和中國人》通過大量實例講述了中國的語言特點、劍橋圖書館所藏有關中國的圖書、中國的行政管理制度、中國與古希臘的比較、道教，以及中國的民風和習俗。
The "China Yesterday" series include a few Sinological and biographical works on the topics of Chinese history, literature, society, etc. All these works were written by foreigners and shed light on China in unique perspectives.
With lots of examples, China and the Chinese expounds on features of Chinese language, books about China in the Cambridge Library, China's administrative system, comparison between China and ancient Greece, Taoism, and Chinese folk customs.
圖書目錄
LECTURE I
THE CHINESE LANGUAGE
Its Importance— Its Difficulty— The Colloquial— Dialects—“Mandarin”— Absence of Grammar— Illustrations— Pidgin-English—Scarcity of Vocables— The Tones— Coupled Words— The Written Language— The Indicators— Picture Characters— Pictures of Ideas—The Phonetics— Some Faulty Analyses
LECTURE II
A CHINESE LIBRARY
The Cambridge (Eng.) Library— (A) The Confucian Canon—(B) Dynastic History— The “Historical Record”— The “Mirror of History”— Biography— Encyclopædias— How arranged—Collections of Reprints— The Imperial Statutes— The Penal Code—(C) Geography— Topography— An Old Volume— Account of Strange Nations— (D) Poetry— Novels— Romance of the Three Kingdoms—Plays— (E) Dictionaries— The Concordance— Its Arrangement—Imperial Catalogue— Senior Classics
LECTURE III
DEMOCRATIC CHINA
The Emperor— Provincial Government— Circuits— Prefectures—Magistracies— Headboroughs— The People— The Magistrate— Other Provincial Officials— The Prefect— The Intendant of Circuit (Taot‘ai)—Viceroy and Governor— Taxation— Mencius on “the People”— Personal Liberty— New Imposts— Combination—Illustrations
LECTURE IV
CHINA AND ANCIENT GREECE
Relative Values of Chinese and Greek in Mental and Moral Training— Lord Granville— Wên T’ien-hsiang— Han Yü— An Emperor— A Land of Opposites— Coincidences between Chinese and Greek Civilisations— The Question of Greek Influence— Greek
Words in Chinese— Coincidences in Chinese and Western Literature—Students of Chinese wanted
LECTURE V
TAOISM
Religions in China— What is Tao?— Lao Tzŭ— The Tao Tê Ching—Its Claims— The Philosophy of Lao Tzŭ— -Developed by Chuang Tzŭ— His View of Tao— A Taoist Poet— Symptoms of Decay— The Elixir of Life— Alchemy— The Black Art— Struggle between Buddhism and Taoism— They borrow from One Another— The Corruption of
Tao— Its Last State
LECTURE VI
SOME CHINESE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS
Origin of the Queue— Social Life— An Eyeglass— Street Etiquette— Guest and Host— The Position of Women— Infanticide—Training and Education of Women— The Wife’s Status— Ancestral Worship— Widows— Foot-binding— Henpecked Husbands— The
Chinaman a Mystery— Customs vary with Places— Dog’s Flesh—Substitutes at Executions— Doctors— Conclusion
INDEX
作者簡介
翟理斯（Herbert Allen Giles，1845—1935），1867年來到中國，歷任天津、寧波、漢口、廣州、汕頭、廈門、福州、上海、淡水等地英國領事館翻譯、領事等職，歸國後任劍橋大學教授。
Herbert Allen Giles (8 December 1845 – 13 February 1935) was a British diplomat and sinologist who was the professor of Chinese at Cambridge University for 35 years.
