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3 unusual facts about Lin Yutang


Eat a Bowl of Tea

#Chua, Cheng Lok; "Golden Mountain: Chinese Versions of the American Dream in Lin Yutang, Louis Chu, and Maxine Hong Kingston" Ethnic Groups 1982; 4 (1-2): 33-59.

Lin Yutang

He later wrote that in the Widener Library he first found himself and first came alive, but he never saw a Harvard-Yale game.

Put Out More Flags

The title of the novel comes from the saying of an anonymous Chinese sage, quoted and translated by Lin Yutang in The Importance of Living (1937).


A Leaf in the Storm

A Leaf in the Storm, a Novel of War-Swept China is a 1941 novel by Lin Yutang, in effect a sequel to his Moment in Peking.


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