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Lin wrote My Country and My People (吾國與吾民) (1935) and The Importance of Living (生活的藝術) (1937) in English. Others include Between Tears and Laughter ( 啼笑皆非 ) (1943), The Importance of Understanding (1960, a book of translated Chinese literary passages and short pieces), The Chinese Theory of Art (1967).
Moment in Peking is a novel originally written in English by Chinese author Lin Yutang.The novel, Lin's first, covers the turbulent events in China from 1900 to 1938, including the Boxer Uprising, the Republican Revolution of 1911, the Warlord Era, the rise of nationalism and communism, and the start of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945.
[3] Lin also translated Li's "How to be Happy Though Rich" and "How to be Happy Though Poor", and "The Arts of Sleeping, Walking, Sitting and Standing", which illustrate his satirical approach to serious topics. [4] Li was critical of gambling, describing dice as innocent objects transformed into devils in the hands of gamblers. [5]
Six Chapters of a Floating Life (Shanghai, 1936) - translated by Lin Yutang. Reprinted in The Wisdom of China and India by Lin Yutang (New York: Random House, 1942) Chapters from a Floating Life: The Autobiography of a Chinese Artist (Oxford University Press, 1960) - translated by Shirley M. Black
In the 1930s, Lin Yutang's My Country and My People (1935), and The Importance of Living (1937), became best-sellers. Chinese American authors became more prolific and accepted after the lifting of the Chinese Exclusion Act.
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Chinatown Family is a 1948 novel by Lin Yutang set in New York City's Chinatown of the 1920s and 1930s, concerning the experiences of the Fongs, a Chinese-American family in becoming successful by hard work and endurance in a sometimes less than welcoming America.
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.