Philosopher
Lin Yutang
Overview
Lin Yutang (10 October 1895 – 26 March 1976) was a Chinese writer, linguist, and inventor. A prolific bilingual writer in both Chinese and English, he was celebrated for pioneering a humorous prose style in modern Chinese literature and for serving as a cultural bridge between China and the West, most notably through My Country and My People (1935) and his English translations of Chinese classics. As a linguist, he compiled a series of ESL textbooks for Chinese learners in the 1930s and later produced an English–Chinese dictionary in the 1970s. As an inventor, he designed a Chinese typewriter, which was patented in the United States in 1952, though it was never mass-produced. From 1940 to 1973, Lin received six nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Philosophers who discussed Lin Yutang
Ideas Lin Yutang discusses
- Bachelor of Arts
- Harvard University
- Machine translation
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Philology
- Nobel Prize in Literature
- Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Singapore
- Taoism
- Cold War
- Buddhism
- Leipzig University
- New Culture Movement
- Christianity
- Song dynasty
- Chiang Kai-shek
- Chinese classics
- Hu Shih
Place in the tradition
Part of Taoism.