郭诗

Book reviews

郭诗

   Having read the book of THE SPIRIT OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE, I'd like to give some book reviews with my shallow knowledge. 

   On the one hand, I have to express my respect to the writer for his effort to spread Chinese traditional cultural. In this book, I can know the writer's deep cultural connotation, especially when it comes to Confucius. The writer quoted a lot of lines of Confucius and other scholars in the book to introduce and explain Chinese culture more clearly. This book broads my horizons and enriches my cultural knowledge. It is necessary and essential for today's Chinese to understand Chinese traditional culture deeply when Chinese culture falls into oblivion. In many ways, the writer has deepgoing and right insight. For example, in THE CHINESE WOMAN chapter, the writer says “the chief end of a woman in china is to live as a good daughter, a good wife and a good mother ”.I think it conforms to women's thought in feudal society. Women thought family was the most important belief and they delicated their whole life to family. 

     Except these advantages, however, this book still has some incorrect points. One of what I can't approve most is that the writer thinks polygamy is a proper system. In my view, man and wife is a relationship of being unique to each other. 
     In a word, this book is deserve to spread around the world with some weakness though. Nowadays, with the ideology changing, I think reading this book is also a good way for us to learn Chinese spirit and self-exam. 

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