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Lin Yutang


Born
in Banzi, China
October 10, 1895

Died
March 26, 1976

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Reference, Religion & Spirituality


Prolific writer of a wide variety of works in Chinese 林语堂 and English; in the 1930s he founded several Chinese magazines specializing in social satire and Western-style journalism.

Lin, the son of a Chinese Presbyterian minister, was educated for the ministry but renounced Christianity in his early 20s and became a professor of English. He traveled to the United States and Europe for advanced study; on his return to China, he taught, edited several English-language journals, and contributed essays to Chinese literary magazines.

In 1932 Lin established the Lunyu banyuekan (“Analects Fortnightly”), a type of Western-style satirical magazine totally new to China at that time. It was highly successful, and he soon introduced two more publications ...more

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Average rating: 4.09 · 4,488 ratings · 552 reviews · 226 distinct works • Similar authors
The Importance of Living
4.06 avg rating — 1,401 ratings — published 1937 — 127 editions
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Moment in Peking
4.45 avg rating — 601 ratings — published 1939 — 62 editions
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My Country And My People
4.21 avg rating — 445 ratings — published 1935 — 32 editions
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The Gay Genius: The Life an...
4.25 avg rating — 302 ratings — published 1947 — 59 editions
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Una hoja en la tormenta
4.10 avg rating — 168 ratings — published 1941 — 44 editions
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Famous Chinese Short Stories
3.78 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 1952 — 37 editions
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Lady Wu
3.46 avg rating — 134 ratings — 43 editions
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Red Peony
3.68 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 1961 — 37 editions
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The Wisdom of China and India
4.27 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 1942 — 12 editions
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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.”
― Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living
tags: life, simplicity
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“If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live”
― Lin Yutang
tags: life
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“There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.”
― Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living
tags: tea
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