Chinese Characteristics (Chinese and English Volumes)

Title: Chinese Characteristics (Chinese and English Version)

Author: Arthur H. Smith, Liu Wenfei (Translator)

ISBN: 9787542626110

Edition: English-Chinese

Publishing Date: 2007-01

Publishing House: Shanghai Sanlian Book

Cover: P   Page: Tow Volumes   Format: 16mo   

Introduction:

Written as a series of pungent and sometimes comic essays for a Shanghai newspaper in the late 1880s, Chinese Characteristics was among the five most read books on China among foreigners living in China as late as World War I and it was read by Americans at home as a wise and authentic handbook. The book was quickly translated into Japanese and just as quickly into Chinese. It was accepted by the Chinese — and has maintained its authoritative status for over a century — as the quintessential portrait of the Chinese race drawn by a Westerner.