内容简介
西方人对中国的误解和偏见、刻板印象从何而来？
本书是英国剑桥大学人类学教授艾伦·麦克法兰的“文明三部曲”之一、《文明的比较》续篇，是一部长达二十多年的田野调查，探寻汉语文化圈的特质，研究西方偏见和焦虑的根源。
作者从人类学角度，以旁观者的身份观察了中国社会，探讨了西方国家早期对于中国的焦虑和偏见的根源：无知和恐惧，再加上半遮半掩的政治和经济竞争。麦克法兰从字母A出发，行至字母Z，从儒家、道家思想，到科举制度与现代科技，再到中国人的谦逊与人际关系，用自己的实地研究刺破这种偏见和焦虑的“泡沫”。同时也为长期生活在汉语文化圈的人们，提供了另一种观察自己的角度。
作者简介
艾伦·麦克法兰（Alan Macfarlane）
著名历史学家与人类学家，剑桥大学社会人类学教授、剑桥大学国王学院院士、英国国家学术院院士。
麦克法兰在剑桥大学执教逾40年，关注现代世界诸文明起源及特性的比较研究，研究对象覆盖西欧、东亚等文化区域，著述30余种，包括《文明的比较》《文明的观察：汉语文化圈的特质》《文明的体验：人类学视角下的英国》《绿色黄金》《英国个人主义的起源》等。
Content introduction
Where do Westerners' misunderstandings, prejudices and stereotypes of China come from?
This book is the continuation of the Comparison of Civilizations, one of the "Civilizations trilogy" by Alan MacFarlane, a professor of anthropology at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, and is a field investigation that has lasted for more than two decades, exploring the characteristics of the Chinese cultural circle and investigating the roots of Western prejudices and anxieties.
As an anthropological observer of Chinese society, the author explores the origins of early Western anxieties and prejudices about China: ignorance and fear, combined with half-veiled political and economic competition. Starting from the letter A to the letter Z, Macfarlane punctures this "bubble" of prejudice and anxiety with his own field research, from Confucianism and Taoism, to the imperial examination system and modern technology, to Chinese humility and human relationships. At the same time, it also provides another perspective for people who have lived in the Chinese cultural circle for a long time to observe themselves.
About the author
Alan Macfarlane
Renowned historian and anthropologist, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and Fellow of the British National Academy.
Macfarlane has taught at the University of Cambridge for more than 40 years, focusing on the comparative study of the origins and characteristics of civilizations in the modern world, covering cultural regions such as Western Europe and East Asia, and has written more than 30 books, including The Comparison of Civilizations, The Observation of Civilizations: The Characteristics of the Chinese Cultural Sphere, and the Experience of Civilizations: Britain from an anthropological Perspective, Green Gold, The Origin of British Individualism, etc.
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