摘要
从近代中国开始，“面子”被视为中国文化的最重要特性之一而受到学者的广泛关注。面子是一种社会心理建构，国内外学者分别从社会学和心理学角度对面子给予界定和展开研究。与近代学者的观点不同，当前研究者普遍认为面子不是中国或东方文化特有的现象，同时对社会生活的影响也不都是消极的。
From modern age of China, ＂face＂ has caused extensive concern of scholars as one of most important characteristics of chinese culture. Face is a kind of psychosocial construction. Scholar from home and abroad define and research face respectively from sociology and psychology angle. Differ from latter-day scholars＇ viewpoint, current researchers generally don＇t think face as the special phenomenon in Chinese or other oriental culture, and don＇ t consider that face only bring negative social influence.
