Collector's Edition Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Death of Literary Master Lin Yutang (18 Volumes in Total)

About This Novel

This set of books is a collector's edition commemorating the 40th anniversary of Lin Yutang's death. There are 18 volumes in total, including "From Pagan to Christian", "The Rumbling of the Wind (Commemorative Collector's Edition)", "Red Peony (Commemorative Collector's Edition)", "Beijing Smoke and Clouds: All 2 Volumes", and "The Wisdom of Confucius (Commemorative Collector's Edition)" ", "Lai Boying", "Laozi's Wisdom (Commemorative Collector's Edition)", "American Wisdom (Collector's Edition) (Set of 2 volumes)", "Strange Island", "The Art of Living", "The Biography of Su Dongpo", "Chinatown", "It's Laughing", "My Country and My People", "The True Biography of Wu Zetian", "The Wisdom of India", "The Wisdom of China", "The Zhumen". "My Country, My People": is Lin Yutang's famous and representative work in the Western literary world. The book uses a frank and humorous style and wise and accessible language to describe the morality, mental state and aspirations of the Chinese people, as well as China's society, culture and life interests. It beautifully explains Chinese character, soul, ideals, life, politics, society, and art, and makes in-depth comparisons with Western characters, ideals, and life, causing a sensation at home and abroad. "Gone with the Wind (Commemorative Collector's Edition)": The New York Times hailed it as China's "Gone with the Wind". During the Anti-Japanese War, the war was like a big storm, and the autumn wind swept away the fate of everyone like fallen leaves. The novel is set in China (Beiping, Shanghai, and Wuhan) during the Anti-Japanese War. It tells the legendary experience of a beautiful woman with a strange life experience in troubled times, and the story of her finally stepping out of her narrow self, transcending personal love, and sublimating her life in a fiery patriotic atmosphere. At the same time, this book also epically expresses the painful and great sublimation of the national spirit when "the Chinese nation is at its most dangerous." "Beijing Smoke and Clouds: Complete 2 Volumes": The whole book tells the story of the three major families of Zeng, Yao, and Niu in Peking from the Boxer Rebellion in 1901 to the The joys and sorrows, grievances and hatreds during the more than thirty years of the Anti-Japanese War. The book has a magnificent structure and intertwined clues. It panoramically shows the rapid and profound changes that have taken place in modern Chinese society. It is known as the modern version of "The Dream of Red Mansions" (Collection Edition). >>: In Mr. Lin Yutang's view, Confucius' thoughts are not only "life mottos" and "moral cultivation", but also a kind of deep rational thinking, a persistent pursuit of the meaning of life, full of poetic emotional content, and a religious character of "ultimate concern". Confucius' thoughts are passed down from generation to generation and penetrate into the blood of each of us. Become the "cultural soul" of the Chinese people. "The Biography of Su Dongpo": Su Dongpo was an optimist with an unchangeable nature, a compassionate moralist, a prose writer, a new-school painter, a great calligrapher, an experimenter in wine making, an engineer, an opponent of false Taoism, a practitioner of yoga, a Buddhist, and a scholar-official. , Is the emperor's secretary, a drinker, a compassionate judge, a political stickler, a wanderer under the moon, a poet, and a person who is humorous and loves to joke. But this is not enough to tell the whole story of Su Dongpo: In the modern Chinese literary world, Lin Yutang's "Chinatown" belongs to the early "immigration." "Literature" category. It is like a bridge connecting the foreign novels that emerged in the 1920s and 1930s, which highlighted national consciousness and patriotic sentiments, and contemporary works that express the pursuit and disillusionment of the "American Dream." The author uses prose writing and uses the life experience of a family in his childhood hometown who were in the same boat and loved each other as the material to describe the stories from China's blessings. The story of Jian's old Tom family working together to "start a business" in Chinatown, New York, and finally realizing the "American Dream" through hard work and honest efforts. "The Rich Gate", "The Rich Gate", "The Smoke in the Capital" and "The Wind and the Crane" are collectively called the "Lin Yutang Trilogy", which was published in 1953 and mainly tells the story of two Xi'an people. The novel not only describes the cultural landscape and turbulent current situation of the ancient city of Xi'an in the 1930s, but also follows the experiences of the two protagonists. It also spends a lot of words describing the vast customs of Western Xinjiang and the land where ethnic groups are mixed and in constant struggle. This is a legendary story that reveals the author's humanitarian sentiments of equality and fraternity. This book is divided into four volumes. The first volume discusses the crisis in today's world and the potential for the third war. The second volume discusses the decline of Taoism and the mistakes of using materialistic methods to solve the crisis. "Image" criticizes various works on the current post-war peace to see the crux of today's thinking. The fourth volume discusses "Governance", which analyzes the direction of culture in the past hundred years from an academic perspective, and deduce the historical reasons for the decline of humanity. It also sheds a light on the new tendency of scientific extreme thinking and changes, rejects materialism and mechanism, and reestablishes the theory of free will. . . .

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