Chinese Characteristics. E-book. Formato PDF Arthur Henderson Smith   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Within the past thirty years, the Chinese has madeyhimself a factor in the. Affairs of many lands. He is seen to be irrepressible; is felt to be incomprehensible, He cannot, indeed, be rightly understood in any country but China, yet the impression still prevails that he is a bundle of contradictions who cannot be understood at all. But after all there is no apparent reason now that, several hundred years of our acquaintance with China have elapsed, why what is actually known of its people should not be co-ordinated, as well as any other combination of complex phenomena.

Proverbs and Common Sayings From the Chinese: Together With Much Related and Unrelated Matter, Interspersed With Observations on Chinese Things-in-General. E-book. Formato PDF Arthur Henderson Smith   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

With the exception of the last fifty pages, this volume consists of material published in the Chinese Recorder, from 1882 to 1885. About Phrases, Proverbs, Couplets, Odes, etc are explained, but few of which, so far as the writer is aware, have been previously published. The hundred pages devoted to Puns and other Linguistic Diversions embracing more than 300 examples, open into an expansive territory, hitherto singularly neglected.

Chinese Characteristics. E-book. Formato PDF Arthur Henderson Smith   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Witness when put upon the stand is expected to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Many witnesses concerning the Chinese have told the truth, but perhaps few of them have succeeded in telling nothing but the truth, and no one of them has ever told the whole truth. N 0 single individual, whatever the extent of his knowl edge, could by any possibility know the whole truth about the Chinese. The present volume of essays is therefore open to objection from three different points of view.