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Lin Yutang
Lin Yu•tang (ˈlɪn ˈyuˈtɑŋ)
n. (Lin Yü-t'ang), 1895–1976, Chinese author and philologist. Lin Yutang
Lin Yutang (lĭn yü`täng`), 1895–1976, Chinese-American writer, translator, and editor, b. Lunqi, Fujian, educated in China and at Harvard, Ph.D. Univ. of Leipzig, 1923. Lin spent most of his life in the United States and wrote most of his many works in English. His nonfictional books include My Country and My People (1935); A Leaf in the Storm (1941), about war-torn China; Between Tears and Laughter (1943), and The Pleasures of a Nonconformist (1962). Among his novels are Chinatown Family (1948) and The Flight of the Innocents (1965). He translated and edited The Chinese Theory of Art (1968). Bibliography See his Memoirs of an Octogenarian (1980). |