论丁韪良“礼赞中国”的个人精神因素——基于丁韪良在华旅居自由和执教尊荣

On William Alexander Parsons Martin’s Personal Spiritual Factor of "Praising China" : Based on Freedom and Honor of Living in China

晚清中国在西方坚船利炮的入侵下更加落伍于时代,而美国人却在中国受到了比其他西方人更好的政治礼遇,这就为美国传教士丁韪良来华生活60余年提供了难得的政治安全环境。他在文字传教、外交活动和汉学研究方面取得了很好的成就,获得了十分满意的精神生活,因而在情感上倾向于对华政治和文化生活的肯定褒扬。这种褒扬中国的文化心理倾向,是丁韪良自始至终的一种文化多元原则,又显示了他的中国文化造诣和高尚的精神修养,堪称才、情、德俱佳的“中国通”和世界文明融通的远见卓识者。

In the late Qing Dynasty,China falls further behind the Times under the invasion of western gunboats,while Americans in China are treated more politically than other westerners,which provides a valuable political and security environment for US missionary William Alexander Parsons Martin to live in China for more than 60 years.He has made great achievements in the study of Chinese language,proselytizing,diplomacy and sinology.As a result,he has obtained a very satisfactory spiritual life,so he emotionally tends to sure and praise the political and cultural life of China emotionally.This kind of tendency of Praising Chinese culture psychology is a kind of diversified principle of his culture all the time,which reveals his Chinese cultural attainments and lofty spiritual accomplishment.He is a visionary who has the ability,sentiment and morality to understand China and the integration world civilization.