Selected Essays of Lin Yutang

Author: Lin Yutang (Author), Ji Xiurong (Editor)
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Publish Date: 2000-01-01
Features: Lin Yutang was a prose writer with distinct characteristics in the history of modern Chinese literature, as well as a complex and controversial thinker. Lin Yutang's prose embodies both excellence and flaws in its content. Apart from his obvious political and ideological errors, some of his ideas and beliefs, such as advocating bourgeois freedom and democracy, humanistic thought centered on the self, and bourgeois individualism, held progressive significance in opposing feudalism at the time. Today, especially in light of Lin Yutang's later changes, we can see both the historical limitations of his perspective then and his reactionary class essence. This book includes 60 of the author's major prose works. Lin Yutang's prose is humorous and leisurely, profound yet seemingly simple, standing out in modern prose with a unique style. The editor provides an objective discussion of Lin Yutang's life and works in the preface, which can serve as a reference for readers.