林語堂論中國通old China hand

原文:  ...but for one Sir Robert Hart there are ten thousand Rodney Gilberts, and for one Bertrand Russell there are ten thousland H.G.W.Woodheads.    The result is a constant, unintelligent elaboration of the Chinaman as a stage fiction, which is as childish as it is untrue and with which the West is so familiar, and a continuation of the early Portuguese sailors'  tradition minus the sailors' obscenity of language, but with essintially the same sailors' obscenity of  mind p.11 <<My Country and My People>>, 1935 Reynal & Hitchock, New York,  openlibrary.org 免費看