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Lin Yutang
Lin Yutang was a Chinese writer, linguist, and inventor. A prolific bilingual writer in both Chinese and English, he was celebrated for pioneering a humorous prose style in modern Chinese literature and for serving as a cultural bridge between China and the West, most notably through My Country and My People (1935) and his English translations of Chinese classics. As a linguist, he compiled a seri…
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culture · Chinese writer, inventor, and linguist (1895–1976) · lexicographer · scholar of English · translator · writer · novelist · also Lin Yutang, Lîm Gí-tông, Yutang
Born 10 October 1895 · Died 26 March 1976 · Q334086
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2025· 2 entries
The New Yorker: The Americanization of Lin Yutang
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2021· 1 entry
Heartland: Lin Yutang, a Classical Liberal Voice for a Free China
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2019· 1 entry
scmp.com: ‘It was my guidebook to China’: serial entrepreneur on Lin Yutang’s My Country and My People
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2014· 1 entry
中国日报网: Lin Yutang statue finds a home at his former residence
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1976· 5 entries
Died 1976-03-26.
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“If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live”
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“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.”
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“There are two kinds of animals on earth. One kind minds his own business, the other minds other people's business. The former are vegetarians, like cows, sheep and thinking men. The latter are carnivorous, like hawks, tigers and men of action.”
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“The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.”
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1947· 1 entry
Published The Gay Genius: The Life and Times of Su Tungpo, which presented the struggle between two Song dynasty figures, Su Shi and Wang Anshi, as parallel to the struggle between Chinese liberals and totalitarian commu
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1933· 2 entries
Met Pearl Buck in Shanghai, who introduced him and his writings to her publisher and future husband, Richard Walsh, head of the John Day Company
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Lu Xun attacked the Analects for being apolitical and dismissed Lin's 'small essays' (小品文; xiǎopǐn wén) as "bric a brac for the bourgeoisie"
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1924· 1 entry
Lin invented the term youmo (幽默), a phono-semantic match with the English word humor
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1895· 1 entry
Born 1895-10-10.
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