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In On Saving Face, Michael Keevak traces the Western reception of the Chinese concept of “face” during the past two hundred years, arguing that it has always been linked to nineteenth-century colonialism. “Lose face” and “save face” have become so normalized in modern European languages that most users do not even realize that they are of Chinese origin. “Face” is an extremely complex and varied notion in all East Asian cultures. It involves proper behavior and the avoidance of conflict, encompassing every aspect of one’s place in society as well as one’s relationships with other people. One can “give face,” “get face,” “fight for face,” “tear up face,” and a host of other expressions. But when it began to become known to the Western trading community in China beginning in the middle of the nineteenth century, it was distorted and reduced to two phrases only, “lose face” and “save face,” both of which were used to suggest distinctly Western ideas of humiliation, embarrassment, honor, a

中國近代史不僅是屈辱的歷史，也是中國人民為了民族獨立、國家富強而不屈不撓奮鬥的歷史。所謂屈辱主要體現在歷史的“沉淪”時期，所謂奮鬥，主要體現在歷史的“上升”時期。這不是說歷史的“沉淪”時期沒有奮鬥，那個時期中國人民有過不少次的奮鬥，但是，由於覺醒程度不夠，物質力量不夠，鬥爭經驗不夠，那時候中國人民的奮鬥還不足以制止中國社會的“沉淪”；在歷史的“上升”時期，不是沒有屈辱，日本帝國主義對中國的侵略，甚

This book was written by Lu Hsun, pioneer and standard-bearer of modern Chinese literature, during the early 1920s. It is a study of the historical development of Chinese fiction from- early myths and