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开 本: 32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装-胶订是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9787500153900
★互相映衬的中英文化与文学交流
★描写了作者在跨文化交际背景下感受到的中西方文化上的差异
★另更多国内外的读者了解到一个全面的中国图景
在《探究中国》中，作者通过描述20世纪中英交流中来自不同国家的文化使者对不同文明的展示与理解。从戏剧中的人物对话到现实中的交流，从旅途中的见闻到亲身经历的事件，不同的文化使者共同向读者展示了中国百年来形象的变迁，为读者揭开了一个更为全面的中国图景。
中国之所以为中国，不是过去一百年称自己是个民族国家的产物，而是因为其实一个有两千多年历史的文明古国。
在人类历史上，中国的变化之快胜过任何一个社会。同时，中国依旧与自己的历史保持着独一无二和无与伦比的亲密感。要是北京的一个出租车司机和你谈到今天的时候，引用三千多年前一两位先贤的话，我们大可不必惊讶。历史，即便是久远的历史，就在他的倒车镜里。
CHAPTER ONE
W. Somerset Maugham and China (I)
CHAPTER TWO
W. Somerset Maugham and China (II)
CHAPTER THREE
Bertrand Russell and e Problem of China (I)
CHAPTER FOUR
Bertrand Russell and e Problem of China (II)
CHAPTER FIVE
Plunder and Pleasure-seeking on the Silk Road: Some
European Case Studies
CHAPTER SIX
Backhouse and His Decadence Mandchoue
CHAPTER SEVEN
Stella Benson and the Consolations of Being an Official’s Wife
CHAPTER EIGHT
S. I. Hsiung and Lady Precious Stream
CHAPTER NINE
LAO SHE: the Unlikely Londoner
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Shanghai Brats: Denton Welch and J. G. Ballard
CHAPTER TWELVE
JOSEPH NEEDHAM: Science and Civilization in China
CHAPTER TEN
Chairman Mao and His English Lady Friends
What power has this blood of your father’s when it is mingled with the tumultuous stream which you have inherited through your mother from innumerable generations? Our race is very pure and very strong. Strange nations have overrun us, but in a little while we have absorbed them so that no trace of a foreign people is left in us. China is like the Yangtze, which is fed by five hundred streams and yet remains unchanged, the river of golden sand, majestic, turbulent, indi?erent, and everlasting. What power have you to swim against that mighty current? You can wear European clothes and eat European food, but in your heart you are a Chinawoman. Are your passions the weak and vacillating passions of the white man? ere is in your heart a simplicity which the white man can never fathom and a deviousness which he can never understand. Your soul is like a rice patch cleared in the middle of the jungle. All around the jungle hovers, watchful and jealous, and it is only by ceaseless labour that you can prevent its inroads. One day your labour will be vain and the jungle will take back its own. China is closing in on you.
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