林語堂雙語文選

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林語堂雙語文選 is written by Yutang Lin and published by Chinese University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 962996435X (ISBN 10) and 9789629964351 (ISBN 13).

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.