卫礼贤中国社会观研究——对《中国经济心理》的思想考察

Research of Richard Wilhelm’s Viewpoints on Chinese Society

德国汉学家卫礼贤认为经济和心理有着必然的对应关系和相互影响，他以这一方法研究了中国的经济和心理。揭示传统中国家庭的实质就是农耕劳动共同体和社会基本经济单位，农业经济从根本上塑造了中国人的心理结构。和睦情结、集体感、尊敬传统、保守主义、敏感面子、正义感及反抗精神等等心理反过来又巩固着农业经济。最后他指明造成人口过剩的经济和心理原因，提出了良好建议.

German sinologists Richard Wilhelm held that economy and psychology have an interactive relation. He applied this method to study economy and psychology in China. As a basic social economic unit in China, families are farm work communities. Agricultural economy molded Chinese psychological structure at the root. On the contrary, the complicated psychology counteracted the agricultural economy. In the end, he pointed out the economical and psychological reasons for overpopulation, and then offered some good suggestions.