Yutang Lin (1895–1976)
Autor/a de The Importance of Living
Sobre l'autor
Though he was never considered to be a serious original thinker or a leading writer in his native China, Lin Yu-t'ang's role as an essayist and popularizer of things Chinese in the West is worthy of attention. He was a native of Changchow in Amoy, son of a Presbyterian minister, and mostra'n més third-generation Christian. He was brought up in a strict household and prepared for the ministry, and after middle school he was sent to the Protestant College of Amoy. In 1911 he entered the famous St. John's University in Shanghai, and it was during his time there that he became disillusioned with the choice of a religious career and renounced Christianity. After graduation (with a rather weak academic record), Lin Yu-t'ang became a professor of English at Tsinghua University because his grounding in foreign languages was much stronger than in classical Chinese. In 1919 he decided to pursue further study in the United States, where he spent one year at Harvard University and then went on to France where he worked for the YMCA. He moved to Germany for a term, and at last in 1923 earned a Ph.D. in Leipzig in the field of archaic Chinese phonology. Lin Yu-t'ang then returned home and tried out various teaching posts, and in 1927 became secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Wuhan government. But politics was not to his liking, and he resigned in the following year. In 1932 he founded the Analects Fortnightly, a magazine of wit and satire that proved to be an instant popular success. Two years later he began another periodical, This Human World, which contained short essays. Unfortunately, his satire angered intellectuals on both the Left and the Right, and this was the beginning of his lifelong friction with Chinese literary and academic circles. In 1936, feeling hostility at home but an increased demand for his writings in the West, Lin Yu-t'ang went to New York City and remained there until 1943, when he went back home to lecture briefly and again became embroiled in controversy. However, in the United States, his essays and ideas were greeted with great enthusiasm. Early in 1954 he was appointed chancellor of the new Chinese University in Singapore, but, because of a disagreement with the trustees on policy, he and his staff left early in 1955 before the university opened its doors. Not long after this, in New York, he and his wife publicly announced their reconversion to Christianity. In addition to his many books of essays, Lin Yu-t'ang published a novel, Moment in Peking, a saga about a Chinese family spanning the years 1900--38. He also published a number of translations of classical Chinese works, the best of which is perhaps Shen Fu's Six Chapters of a Floating Life, the moving autobiographical account of a happy marriage marred by parental disapproval and the tragic early death of the wife. Lin Yu-t'ang's writings are marked by an appreciation of both Eastern and Western culture, and their sparkling, idiomatic English style has endeared him to thousands of Western readers. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Library of Congress
Obres de Yutang Lin
Imperial Peking: Seven centuries of China; with an essay on the art of China by Peter C.Swann (1961) 16 exemplars
The Wisdom of Confucius [Modern Library No. 306] 5 exemplars
支那のユーモア 2 exemplars
Peking, Teil 1 und 2 2 exemplars
Egy múló pillanat regény 2 exemplars
The Wisdom of China 2 exemplars
Peking onder bliksemlicht: Tragedie in de tuin 2 exemplars
Mi patria y mi pueblo 2 exemplars
Upper and lower volumes of the vision of the Wise - China and the World (Lin Yutang anthology)(Chinese Edition) (2000) 2 exemplars
風聲鶴唳 1 exemplars
Communion of Tang with Jin Dynasties (Translated by Lin Yutang) (English and Chinese Edition) (2015) 1 exemplars
كيف يحيا الإنسان: أهمية الحياة 1 exemplars
Una hoja en la tormenta 1 exemplars
生活的藝術 1 exemplars
京華煙雲 1 exemplars
行素集 1 exemplars
吾國與吾民 1 exemplars
Imperial Peking 1 exemplars
Un momento en Pekín 1 exemplars
La oportunidad de Eurídice 1 exemplars
信仰之旅 1 exemplars
紅牡丹 1 exemplars
武則天 1 exemplars
生活的藝術 1 exemplars
支那のユーモア 1 exemplars
Lin YuTang Chinese-English Bilingual Edition: Harvest Moon on West Lake (Bilingual literature) (2009) 1 exemplars
La sabiduría de Lao Tsé 1 exemplars
朱門 1 exemplars
信仰之旅 1 exemplars
Uma Fôlha na Tempestade 1 exemplars
China 1 exemplars
Un genio alegre 1 exemplars
El nombre secreto 1 exemplars
Lin Yutang Chinese-English Bilingual Edition Selected Poems and Prose of Su Tungpo (Lin Yutang Chine (2008) 1 exemplars
Life when the case: the latest revision of hardcover commemorative Collector's Edition!(Chinese Edition) (2014) 1 exemplars
Peace is in the heart 1 exemplars
Un Genio Alegre 1 exemplars
Famous Chinese Stories 1 exemplars
Con Lanzas por Almohada a la Espera del Alba 1 exemplars
Memoirs Of An Octogenarian 1 exemplars
Lin YuTang Chinese-English Bilingual Edition / Dream Shadows (Lin Yutang Chinese-English Bilingual Edition Selected,… (2008) 1 exemplars
Fortællinger fra det gamle Kina 1 exemplars
How I celebrated the New Year 1 exemplars
A Brief Introduction to Setting up a Buddhist Altar — Autor — 1 exemplars
勵志人生 1 exemplars
Northeast Coast fishing manual (in Chinese) 1 exemplars
The Dog-Meat General 1 exemplars
京華煙雲 1 exemplars
Lai bo ying 賴伯英 1 exemplars
Su Chuan (Lin Yutang English Collections) - Lin Yutang English original writings. included many precious old… (2009) 1 exemplars
The First Steps of Vajrayana 1 exemplars
Punainen portti 1 exemplars
Sadhana of Bodhisattva Earth Treasure 1 exemplars
Boundless 1 exemplars
Universally Responding 1 exemplars
CHINA HISTORIA DE LAS IDEAS Y DEL PERIODISMO 1 exemplars
The Wisdom of Confucius [Modern Library No. 306] 1 exemplars
ENTRE LAGRIMAS Y RISAS 1 exemplars
Falevél a viharban regény 1 exemplars
Diamond Wisdom 1 exemplars
Lin Yutang 1 exemplars
A Sabedoria da China e da India 1 exemplars
Momento em Pekim - 2 Volumes 1 exemplars
Pe-king onder bliksemlicht: De dochters van Yao 1 exemplars
Sabiduría Hidú 1 exemplars
Sabiduría China 1 exemplars
從異教徒到基督徒 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 5: Community Responsibility (1969) — Col·laborador — 30 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Lin, Yutang
- Nom oficial
- Lin, Yutang
林語堂 - Data de naixement
- 1895-10-10
- Data de defunció
- 1976-03-26
- Lloc d'enterrament
- at his home in Yangmingshan, Taipei, Taiwan
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- China
- Lloc de naixement
- Banzi, China
- Llocs de residència
- Banzi, China (birth)
Yangmingshan, Taipei, Taiwan - Educació
- St. John's University - Shanghai
Harvard University
University of Leipzig - Professions
- Professor of English Literature
translator
inventor
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 147
- També de
- 10
- Membres
- 2,986
- Popularitat
- #8,548
- Valoració
- 3.8
- Ressenyes
- 47
- ISBN
- 227
- Llengües
- 12
- Preferit
- 7