Last 书评
Honestly speaking, I prefer books full of storylines, thanks to the mission, this is my first reading of a theoretical and philosophical book.
Also, due to it, I began to have some basic understanding of Gu Hongming, whom is proficient in nine languages, including English, France, Germany, Latin, Greece and Malaya, and has thirteen doctorates. He is the first person in China to master western science, language and oriental Chinese in Qing Dynasty. The Spirit of the Chinese is the masterpiece of Gu Hongming’s propaganda of Chinese traditional cultural to the West, the purpose of which is to expound the spirit of the Chinese nation and the value of Chinese civilization. Mr. Gu contrasts Chinese with Americans, Britons, Germans, and French in the book, pointing out that the Chinese have four virtues at the same time: deep, broad, simple and spiritual. He also advocates to solve the problems existing in the western society with the traditional Chinese Confucian thought and to reform them. In his theory, although the Chinese do not have the same religious belief as the westerners, Confucius’ thought is sufficient in the Chinese mind to take the place of Jesus in the westerners and, in addition to that, he stresses the greatest thing which Confucius has done for the Chinese people is that he gave them the true idea of a State – a true, rational, permanent, and absolute basis of a State, and in giving them that, he made it a religion – a State religion. In the book he also admits the Chinese’s shortcoming, but they still have something that should be admired. He wrote: The real Chinaman may be coarse, but there is no grossness in his coarseness. The real Chinaman may be ugly, but there is no hideousness in his ugliness. The real Chinaman may be vulgar, but there is no aggressiveness, no blatancy in his vulgarity. The real Chinaman may be stupid, but there is no absurdity in his stupidity. He also believes that to recognize right and justice, as a force higher than physical force, and moral obligation as something which must be obeyed, then the use of physical force will become necessary, and there will be no militarism in the world. If everyone can take that thought as their belief, there would be no violence in the world now. The book also tells something about the Chinese language and the Chinese women. Although most of the foreigners who have tried to learn Chinese say that Chinese is a very difficult language, in Mr.Gu’s opinion, the reason why they think it difficult is Chinese is a simple language, as there is no case, tense, regular and irregular verbs or grammar. When it comes to Chinese women, the things he mentioned about family I think is also useful at modern times: As the gentleman in China with his honor, his religion of loyalty is the guardian of the state the civil order, in China, so the Chinese woman, the Chinese gentlewoman or lady, with her debonair charm and grace, her purity, her pudeur, and above all, her religion if selflessness, is the guardian angel of the miniature heaven, the home in China. All of our Chinese men and women should do as that to make our home warmer and our nation stronger. At last, show my highest reverence to Mr.Gu.
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