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Although Chinese writer Lin Yutang claimed "face cannot be translated or defined", [2] these definitions have been created: Face is an image of self delineated in terms of approved social attributes. [citation needed] Face is the respectability and/or deference which a person can claim for themself or from others. [citation needed]
Lin Yutang (10 October 1895 – 26 March 1976) was a Chinese inventor, linguist, novelist, philosopher, and translator. He had an informal style in both Chinese and English, and he made compilations and translations of the Chinese classics into English.
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 ChineseâEnglish dictionary to be produced by a fully bilingual Chinese instead of by Western missionaries. [3]
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.
Yutang may refer to: Bai Yutang, fictional character from the Chinese novel The Seven Heroes and Five Gallants; Li Yutang (1899–1951), Chinese general; Lin Yutang (1895–1976), Chinese inventor, linguist, novelist, philosopher, and translator; Lin Yutang House, former residence of Lin Yutang in Taipei, Taiwan
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
Movie stars Zhou Xun and Jelly Lin head the cast of “Imperfect Victim,” a new mainland Chinese drama series that focuses on workplace sexual harassment and leads to a rape trial. Zhou ...
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 ]