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The Vigil of a Nation

By: Lin Yutang

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For the second time Lin Yutang has gone deep into wartime China and has come out with much to tell. No foreign writer, and few Chinese, could have had such a chance to see past the smoke of war, through the clouds of gossip, and beneath the heaving surface of economic and political change. And Lin Yutang, as always, is unafraid of the truth. His sense of history, joined with his spirit of eager inquiry, led him to watch for the old China along with the new. Only China presents such a study in contrasts, rich alike with romance and with hope for the future. Sitting on the ruins of a Tang palace and telling us tales of ancient times, Lin Yutang looks down at an Industrial Co-operative group working in the gully below and dreams of the China that is to be. He describes a cotton mill, all underground, three miles of whirring machines in tunnels bored beneath the protecting hills; and further west, a vast irrigation system built two thousand years ago and still working perfectly.

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1789122147

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9781789122145

Looking Beyond

By: Lin Yutang

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Looking Beyond

By: Lin Yutang

WITH HUMOR AND COMMON SENSE A MODERN PHILOSOPHER SHOWS MANKIND A WAY TO THE GREATER ENJOYMENT OF LIVING... In the year 2004 the heroine, an anthropologist, lands on an unknown and isolated Pacific island. Her plane is destroyed, so the renamed Eurydice finds herself compelled to join the Ruined Earth Utopian islanders. In this gripping novel, which was first published in 1955, Chinese-U.S. author, essayist and academic Dr. Lin Yutang’s appears to formulate his conception of a world beyond the muddling of today in a world that has survived two more world wars, and inaugurated a new Democratic World Commonwealth, outside the limitations of national sovereignty. He makes the contact between this groping old world and an island community, dedicated to peace, isolation and immunity from world ills, exalting the virtues of culture, and surviving in a state of suspended animation with little or no government.

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1789122473

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9781789122473

Between Tears and Laughter

By: Lin Yutang

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Between Tears and Laughter

By: Lin Yutang

Now sorrowful, now joking, but always in deadly earnest, the Chinese philosopher faces the grim facts of war and the grimmer prospects of peace. Dismayed by the materialism of the West, he offers not a “blueprint” for the postwar world, but an approach to thinking about it, that is new to us but not new at all to the Orient, wise in the ways of Man. This book is a positive contribution from the store of Chinese political philosophy to the vexed question of world peace. More important than the Four Freedoms, says Lin, is Freedom from Humbug. The changes in our thinking must be basic if we are to be saved from utter disaster. We cannot be saved by science, by mathematics, by modern mechanism. We need deep draughts of the wine of wisdom, matured through four thousand years by Asiatic thought and experience in learning how man must deal with man. Confucius and Lao-tse, the ancient Greeks and the Hindus, join forces with Lin Yutang in his thrusts at such topics as: The White Man’s Burden, American Isolationism, British Imperialism, Nazi Geopolitics, the Crimes of Europe, The Future of Asia, and The Crux of the Modern Age. No citizen of the Western world can ignore this wisdom and this warning except at his own peril. “A powerful and relentless warning.”—Boston Herald “If you think a gentle, well-mannered philosopher can’t deliver a punch, you’d better read this book. It’s out-and-out sensational, no less, enormously, provocative.”—San Francisco Chronicle “He gives us, mixed with the tolerance and humor of the philosopher, some of the plainest speaking we have had in a long time on the issue of the war and the peace.”—The New Yorker

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1789125839

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9781789125832

林語堂雙語文選

By: Yutang Lin,林語堂

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林語堂雙語文選

By: Yutang Lin,林語堂

Lin Yutang's essays on Chinese society and culture were written in both Chinese and English and spanned the immensely influential decades of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. In this collection of his seminal work, Yutang confronts the rapid cultural developments of the era and the role that a Chinese intellectual must assume as he shares and translates his native country to the West. Known best for introducing "humour" into Chinese literature and culture, Yutang was a writer of great scholarly and popular interest, reflected in these engaging, substantial, and inspiring works.

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280

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Chinese University Press

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962996435X

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9789629964351

Lin Yutang - the Importance of Living

By: Lin Yutang

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Lin Yutang - the Importance of Living

By: Lin Yutang

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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476

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Patterson Press

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1406731188

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9781406731187

My Country and My People

By: Lin Yutang

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My Country and My People

By: Lin Yutang

In this classic book, Yutang Lin does a fantastic job of describing Chinese people, customs and culture in an understandable way for the Western reader. This book was the first of it's kind, Lin being a rarity as he was fluent in both English and Chinese, having been born in China but growing up in America. This extremely popular book will prove to be a fascinating read, and is highly recommended on the bookshelf of anyone with an interest in different non-Western cultures and societies.

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436

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1456636774

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9781456636777

The Importance Of Living

By: Lin Yutang

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The Importance Of Living

By: Lin Yutang

The Importance of Living is a wry, witty antidote to the dizzying pace of the modern world. Lin Yutang's prescription is the classic Chinese philosophy of life: Revere inaction as much as action, invoke humor to maintain a healthy attitude, and never forget that there will always be plenty of fools around who are willing-indeed, eager-to be busy, to make themselves useful, and to exercise power while you bask in the simple joy of existence.At a time when we're overwhelmed with wake-up calls, here is a refreshing, playful reminder to savor life's simple pleasures.

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Harper Collins

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0688163521

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9780688163525

The Vigil of a Nation

By: Lin Yutang

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The Vigil of a Nation

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Looking Beyond

By: Lin Yutang

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Looking Beyond

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Between Tears and Laughter

By: Lin Yutang

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Between Tears and Laughter

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林語堂雙語文選

By: Yutang Lin,林語堂

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林語堂雙語文選

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Chinese University Press

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老子的智慧

By: 林語堂

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老子的智慧

By: 林語堂

Presented here in a beautiful bilingual edition are books 5-7 of the seven books by Laotse known as the Dao De Jing, the cornerstone of Daoist thought. Both the Chinese and the English translations include footnotes to aid in comprehension. These literary translations are from Lin Yutang, one of China most famous translators and scholars. Lin intent in translating Chinese works into English was to help Chinese students learn the English language. Readers of all backgrounds and languages, however, will enjoy these selections from China literary tradition. Books feature traditional Chinese characters on the left-hand page and English translations on the right.

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9570908815

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Book's by Yutang Lin

The Vigil of a Nation

The Vigil of a Nation

Looking Beyond

Looking Beyond

Between Tears and Laughter

Between Tears and Laughter

林語堂雙語文選

林語堂雙語文選

Lin Yutang - the Importance of Living

Lin Yutang - the Importance of Living

My Country and My People

My Country and My People

The Importance Of Living

The Importance Of Living

The Vigil of a Nation

The Vigil of a Nation

Looking Beyond

Looking Beyond

Between Tears and Laughter

Between Tears and Laughter

林語堂雙語文選

林語堂雙語文選

老子的智慧

老子的智慧

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