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Lin Yutang (10 October 1895 – 26 March 1976) was a Chinese inventor, linguist, novelist, philosopher, and translator. One scholar commented that Lin's "particular blend of sophistication and casualness found a wide audience, and he became a major humorous and critical presence", and he made compilations and translations of the Chinese classics into English.
Copy of Six Records of a Floating Life (with title translated as "A Showy Life") in Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Taipei. English. 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)
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. [1]
Moment in Peking is a 2005 Chinese television series produced by CCTV. It is adapted from the novel Moment in Peking by Lin Yutang , who was nominated for a Nobel Prize in 1940 and 1950. [ 1 ]
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.
Him Mark Lai (麥禮謙) – professor of Chinese American studies; Lin Yutang (林語堂) – Hokkien Chinese writer; Huping Ling (令狐萍) – professor of History at Truman State University, author; Liu Kwang-ching (劉廣京) – Historian of late imperial China; University of California, Davis.
Away from boxing, Lin enjoys exercising, watching television and singing, according to the official Olympics site.She was educated at the Chinese Culture University in Taipei, where she studied ...
Users would input a character by pressing two keys based upon the 33 basic stroke formations, which Lin called "letters of the Chinese Alphabet". [4] Lin Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage was the first major Chinese‐English dictionary to be produced by a fully bilingual Chinese instead of by Western missionaries. [3]