Chinese: Full translation

Author: Lin Yutang
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: The Chinese People is Lin Yutang's breakthrough and representative work in the Western literary world. This book conducts corresponding, extensive, and in-depth comparisons between the character, spirit, ideals, life, politics, society, art, and culture of the Chinese people and those of Westerners. Therefore, since its publication in the United States by John Day Company in 1935, the book has caused a sensation both at home and abroad and has been widely disseminated. China is such a great country, and the lives of its people are so complex, that it is natural for there to be all kinds of, even contradictory, interpretations of her. If someone holds an opinion contrary to mine, I am always ready to support them and provide them with more material to prove the correctness of their viewpoint. Moments when people can attain and experience truth are rare, and only those moments endure forever.