Introduce Lin Yutang's life, and works, and style?

Lin Yutang (1895.10.3-1976.3.26) was a native of Longxi, Fujian. His original name was Hele, later changed to Yutang, then Yutang.

In 1912, Lin Yutang was admitted to St. John's University in Shanghai, and after graduation he taught at Tsinghua University; in the fall of 1919, he went to the Department of Literature at Harvard University in the U.S. He was awarded a master's degree in Literature in 1922. In the same year, she went to Germany to join the University of Leipzig, specializing in linguistics. 1923, after receiving her doctorate, she returned to China and served as a professor at Peking University, provost of Beijing Women's Normal University, and dean of the English Department. 1924, she was one of the main contributors to The Language Wire, and in 1926, she went to Xiamen University as the Dean of Literature, where she served as secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 1927, she became secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and in 1932 edited the bimonthly magazine Languages of Confucius, which she founded in 1934. In 1934, he founded Human World, and in 1935, he founded Cosmic Wind, which advocated "self-centeredness and idleness", and after 1935, he wrote cultural works and novels in English in the United States, such as My Country and My People, The Smoke and Cloud of Beijing, and The Sound of the Wind and the Crane.

In 1944, he returned to China for a time to lecture in Chongqing. 1945, he went to Singapore to prepare for the founding of Nanyang University and served as its president. 1952, he co-founded the magazine Tianfeng in the U.S. In 1966, he settled in Taiwan. 1967, he was appointed a research professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and was elected vice president of International PEN in 1975. 1976, he passed away in Hong Kong.

Bibliography:

The Collection of Cutting Whisks (Miscellaneous Essays) 1928, Beixin

New Literary Commentary (Criticism) 1930, Beixin

Linguistic Discussion Series 1932, Kaiming

European and American Writings (Prose) 1933, Earthly

Daolu Jie (Miscellaneous Essays) 1934, Life

Daolu Jie (Miscellaneous Essays) 1934, Life

The Collection of the Great Wasteland (Miscellaneous Essays) 1934, Hong Kong

The Collection of the Great Wasteland (Miscellaneous Essays) 1935, Hong Kong

The collection of the most popular and influential works in Chinese literature. Life

My Words (vol. 1, collection of essays, also known as Hsing Su Jie), 1934, Era

My Words (vol. 2, collection of essays, also known as Humble Jings Jie), 1936, Era

Lin Yutang Humorous Writings (林语堂幽默文选) 1936, Wanxiang (万象)

Life of the Hair Seeing (生活的发见) 1938, Soka Gakkai (创元社), Tokyo

The Newborn China 1939, Lin's Publishing House

Slang Collection (Miscellaneous Writings) 1940, Shanghai Shuo Feng Bookstore

The First Stream 1941, Shanghai Globe Publishing House

Yutang Wen Cun 1941, Lin's Publishing House

Chinese Saints 1941, Shanghai Shuo Feng Bookstore

Spirit of Chinese Culture 1941, Shanghai Shuo Feng Bookstore

The Collection of Satirical Songs, translated by Jiang Qi, 1941, Guohua Compilation and Translation Society

Love and Thorns, 1941, Mingri Publishing House

The Collection of Jinxiu, 1941, Shanghai Shuo Feng Bookstore

Art of Living, 1941, Shanghai Xifeng Society

Yu Bu Zhai Wen Cun (Miscellaneous Writings Collection) 1941 Humanities Bookstore

Elegant People and Elegant Things (collection of miscellaneous essays) 1941, Shanghai First Class Bookstore

Yutang Essays 1941, Shanghai Humanity Publishing House

Pu Jingji (collection of miscellaneous essays) 1941, Hong Kong Guanghua Publishing House

Instantaneous Beijing China (a long story also known as The Smoky Clouds of Beijing China) Translated by Zhang Zhenyu, 1940, Shanghai Certain Publishing House

Portrait of a Literary Man, 1947, Golden House Bookstore, Shanghai

Crying and Laughing 1947 (5 editions), Commercial

Lin Yutang Prose Collections 1954, World Digest Publishing House, Hong Kong

Nothing to Talk About (1-1/2 episodes, collection of miscellaneous essays), 1969, Wenxing Bookstore; 1-3 combined episodes 1974, Kai Ming

Peaceful Heart on High E (collection of miscellaneous essays) 1966, Wen Xing Bookstore

Writings of Yutang 1978, Kai Ming

Lin Yutang's Classical Masterpieces (Vols. 1- 35) 1986, Golden Orchid Culture Publishing House, Taiwan

Silhouette of a Literary Man (collection of prose essays), with the people. 1986, Chongqing People's Publishing House

Chinese People (collection of essays) 1988, Zhejiang People's

Lai Boying (long novel) 1988, Hunan Literary Arts

The Feast of Life (collection of essays) 1988, Hunan Literary Arts

Lin Yutang Quotations

Both Feet on the East and West Cultures

Two Feet on the East-West Culture

One-Minded Commentary on the Universal Writings

My Words

Enlightenment and Suffering

The degree of enlightenment in a man is precisely equal to the depth of the suffering he has endured.

--"My Country, My People"

Rarity

There is always a paucity of human beings to be proud of, and a rarity of those in this world who can give fulfillment to life.

--"My Country, My People"

Without humor

The culture of a nation without humor will become more and more hypocritical, the life more and more fraudulent, the mind more and more pedantic, the literature more and more dry, and the mind more and more stubborn.

--"A Night's Discourse"

If there were no women

A world without women would be devoid of rituals, religions, traditions, and social classes. There would be no men who are naturally polite and no women who are naturally impolite. If there were no women, we would not be living in the same old neighborhoods, but in houses with triangular doors and windows and octagonal bathtubs, and we would not know the meaning of the difference between the dining room and the bedroom. Men like to eat in the bedroom and sleep in the dining room

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