As A Chinaman Saw Us: Passages From His Letters To A Friend At Home
Автор:Anonymous Год: 2012 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 184 ISBN: 1481021966 "We may not question the fact that the Chinaman thousands of years ago had some kind of civilization and a pagoda when the European was living in a cave like a brute, but that accident does not make the Chinaman of to-day the better man. "As a Chinaman Saw Us" is supposably written by one who, having lived some time in the United States, studied our manners and customs."- The New York Times Since the publication in 1832 of that classic of cynicism, The Domestic Manners of the Americans, by Mrs. Trollope, perhaps nothing has appeared that is more caustic or amusing in its treatment of America and the Americans than the following passages from the letters of a cultivated and educated Chinaman. The selections have been made from a series of letters covering a decade spent in America, and were addressed to a friend in China who had seen few foreigners. The writer was graduated from a well-known college, after he had attended an English school, and later took special studies at a German...
