Lin Yutang: Life should be happy

Author: Wang Binggen
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: This is a series of illustrated personal histories that highlights historical photographs and visual materials. The author uses the life of the subject as a backdrop, employing elegant prose to scan and gather fragments that can reveal the subject's character and destiny. Through the perfect combination of historical photographs, visual materials, the subject's own narratives, and others' comments, the lives of these contemporary cultural figures in China are presented in a multi-layered, multi-faceted, and vivid manner. Each book contains approximately 30,000 words and about 120 images. The text is concise, and the images are precious, making the books valuable for collection. He is a humorist without quotation marks, a university scholar with expertise in both Eastern and Western studies, a great writer who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature for his novel Jinghua Yan Yun, a proponent and writer of modern spiritual essays, an educator, an inventor, a thinker, a joyful person in life, a Christian, and a villager from Banzai Mountain in Pinghe, Fujian.