Life of Su Dongpo

Author: Lin Yutang
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Publish Date: 2001-02-01
Features: Lin Yutang once compared himself to a character in Dream of the Red Chamber, describing himself as a "Tanchun" who was married to foreign culture. Starting from My Country and My People, he has been dedicated to introducing Chinese culture to foreigners and has achieved remarkable success. Now, The Story of Su Dongpo has been translated into Chinese, and the Chinese people will see how Lin Yutang introduces the elegant scholar Su Dongpo to foreigners. "Upper, he could accompany the Jade Emperor; lower, he could accompany a beggar in the Paotianyuan." Perhaps only Su Dongpo in ancient and modern times possessed such qualities. If Li Bai was a spectacular meteor, Du Fu was a pious philosopher, then Su Dongpo was full of youthful vitality—he could be arrogant and eccentric, as well as solemn and serious; he could be playful and light-hearted, as well as grave and dignified; he had joy, happiness, dreamlike enlightenment, and resigned endurance. Su Dongpo's life of singing and dancing could only be found in the words of Mr. Lin Yutang! This The Story of Su Dongpo is ranked alongside Wu Han's The Story of Zhu Yuanzhang, Liang Qichao's The Story of Li Hongzhang, and Zhu Donglan's The Story of Zhang Juzheng, and is hailed as one of the "Four Great Biographies of the 20th Century"!