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Laughing or Crying

Lin Yutang

115K0

This book is divided into four volumes. Volume 1 is about "Situation". Describes the crisis in today's world and the potential for the Third War. Volume 2 discusses "Taoism", pointing out the decline of Taoism and the error of using materialistic methods to solve crises. Volume Three discusses "symptoms" and refutes various current treatises on postwar peace in order to see the crux of today's thinking. Volume Four 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 light on the new tendency of scientific thinking and change, rejects materialism and mechanism, and reestablishes the theory of free will. In terms of content, Volume 1 talks more about the new situation caused by the renaissance of Asia. Volume 2 discusses minor details such as racial prejudice, Europeanized ignorance, mathematical superstition, and mechanical psychology. Volume Three contains many examples of solutions for peace discussions in the West today. Volume 4 is devoted to the basic issues of academic thought and philosophy.

Big City Beijing

Lin Yutang

89K0

Lin Yutang lived in the United States and Europe for decades and introduced the glorious Chinese culture to the West with many classic monographs handed down from generation to generation. This book cites a wide range of references, and uses rich literary and historical materials and a free writing style to reinterpret the thousands of years of Beijing's historical evolution. All aspects of Beijing culture - the inner city and the outer city, the urban area and the countryside, the royal family and the people, as well as the city's business cards such as palaces, royal gardens, temples, pagodas, sculptures, paintings, and calligraphy are also included. With true and accurate documentary, fascinating readability, and high-grade artistry, this book fully reproduces the authentic Beijing. It is a masterpiece that intimately understands the spirit of Beijing!

Qidao

Qidao

General Fiction

Lin Yutang

212K027

The future world described by Lin Yutang. At the beginning of the 21st century, geoscientists mysteriously arrived at a strange and independent island in the depths of the Pacific Ocean - Tainos Island. A group of people, led by wealthy businessmen and philosophers, established a new society on this island. The residents on the island come from different countries, with different cultural backgrounds and different personalities, but they can live in harmony with each other. In fact, it is a utopian country conceived by the author.

Lai Boying

Lai Boying

General Fiction

Lin Yutang

101K08

This book is Lin Yutang's autobiographical novel. The prototype of Lai Boying is the author's first love. Silla and Lai Boying were childhood sweethearts, and developed a deep love affair when they grew up. Lai Boying was unable to go abroad with Xinluo for various reasons. Xinluo's deep yearning for his first love in a foreign country often made him unable to leave. The uncle's concubine fell in love with him absurdly, but failed in the end; Mrs. Wu's daughter pursued him hard, and finally committed suicide after failing. In confusion, Xinluo fell in love with the beautiful mixed-race girl Han Qin and fell madly in love with her. Later, Han Qin was influenced by a prostitute and pursued the sensuality and money of European men. After experiencing a series of mental struggles such as lovesickness, crazy love, lovelorn, and distress, Silla finally reunited with Lai Boying and regained the beauty of the past.

Spiritual Realm Secret Realm: Lazy Town

Lin Yutang

761K0

Deep in the soul, a secret place. There is an imbalance of good and evil in the world, and mankind is in doom. Lazy Town is a town where intelligent machines are extremely developed and the value of human beings is gone. A girl descended from the sky, with a mission to save the world, wholeheartedly stepped into this unknown world. She will start from Lazy Town, vowing to cut off the evil in the world and write a new chapter in the destiny of mankind. "Lazy Town Chapter" is being revised. You can follow "Spirit Realm Secret Realm: Greedy Town" in the future~

Spirit Realm Secret Realm: Greedy Town

Lin Yutang

429K0

Deep in the soul, a secret place. There is an imbalance of good and evil in the world, and mankind is in doom. Greedy Town is a town with extremely developed commodity trade. However, due to the spread of people's "greed", they monopolize the water source, causing the people in the town to live in dire straits. Why is "greed" so prevalent? What causes the water crisis? A girl descended from the sky, with a mission to save the world, wholeheartedly stepped into this unknown world. She vowed to cut off the evil in the world and write a new chapter in the destiny of mankind. (A handsome young man. Due to health issues, I update once on weekdays. Double updates are recommended)

Chinese Legend

Chinese Legend

Literature

Lin Yutang

146K04

"Chinese Legends" is Lin Yutang's typical masterpiece introducing Chinese traditional culture to the West. The book contains 20 masterpieces of ancient Chinese short stories, divided into six categories according to the nature of the novel content: mystery and adventure, love, ghosts, satire, fantasy and humor, and fairy tales. The purpose of these short stories is to describe human nature, to the point, to deepen readers' understanding of life, to arouse compassion, and to give readers a sense of pleasure.

History of Chinese News and Public Opinion (1968 Edition)

Lin Yutang

116K0

The core issue explored in this book is how China's public opinion has been expressed from ancient times to modern times. The author divides the ancient and modern parts into two parts to explore the circumstances and ways in which ancient Chinese scholars and ordinary people practiced public criticism.

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

Lin Yutang

3.7M0

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. . . .

Classic Novels of the Republic of China: the Wind and the Crane

Lin Yutang

210K0

The story took place on the eve of the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War. The Yao family and the Zhang family are well-known silk industry tycoons in Nancheng. They are fighting endlessly for the position of being the leader of the silk industry in Nancheng. However, they do not expect that the storm of war will come like an autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves, sweeping away the fate of everyone. In this cruel war, the beautiful heroine Dani, with her tenacious and unyielding personality, transcended the narrow personal love, completed the sublimation of life, and realized the legend of her own life. This work is known as the Chinese version of "Gone with the Wind".

Moving Peiping

Moving Peiping

Literature

Lin Yutang

101K0

A collection of classic works by Chinese writer Lin Yutang, a master of Chinese studies and nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature many times. The book is divided into four volumes, namely: Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom, Picturesque Scenery, Unique Craftsmanship, and Life in the World. The language is natural and simple, and reading it is like talking to a master, which can give people the courage to face life and be themselves. This book is a good extracurricular reading book for primary and secondary schools, suitable for Chinese language learning. This book selects chapters suitable for young people to read, including "Moving Peking", "Celebrating New Year's Day in the Old Calendar" and many other chapters selected into Chinese textbooks. Young readers can appreciate everyone's elegance, enrich their hearts and improve their reading skills at the same time. They can also get a glimpse of the master's creative methods and improve their writing skills.

Classic Novels of the Republic of China: Smoke and Clouds in Beijing

Lin Yutang

529K0

The novel describes the grievances, grievances, joys and sorrows of the three families of Zeng, Yao and Niu in Beiping during the decades from the Boxer Rebellion to the Anti-Japanese War. It is interspersed with major historical events such as Yuan Shikai's theft of the country, Zhang Xun's restoration, the Zhili-Fengtian War, the warlord separatism, the May 4th Movement, the "Yusi School" and "Modern Commentary School" pen battles, and the outbreak of World War II. It gives a panoramic view of the ever-changing historical landscape of Chinese society.

Beijing Smoke and Clouds (part 1) (commemorative Collector's Edition)

Lin Yutang

276K06

This book is Lin Yutang's long-standing and prestigious work. The text reflects the author's strong patriotism, sincere love for traditional Chinese culture and life details, and a very vital Lao-Zhuang philosophical realm. It is an encyclopedic masterpiece. It is a novel written in English by Lin Yutang when he was living in Paris in the late 1930s. The original title was Moment in Peking. The book tells the story of the three major families of Zeng, Yao and Niu in Beiping from the Boxer Rebellion in 1901 to the Anti-Japanese War for more than 30 years. The book has a grand structure, intertwined clues, and a panoramic view of the rapid and profound changes that have taken place in modern Chinese society. It is known as the modern version of "Dream of Red Mansions".

The Roaring Wind (commemorative Collector's Edition)

Lin Yutang

209K8.1

This book is the sequel to Lin Yutang's "Smoke in Beijing". It is called "Lin Yutang's Trilogy" together with "Smoke in Beijing" and "The Zhumen". It can be said to be one of his masterpieces of novels. 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 has reached its most dangerous moment".

Moving Peiping

Moving Peiping

Literature

Lin Yutang

104K0

This is a collection of Mr. Lin Yutang's works suitable for teenagers to read. The book is divided into four volumes, namely: Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom, Picturesque Scenery, Unique Craftsmanship, and Life in the World. Under each volume are selected classic and beautiful articles suitable for teenagers to read from Mr. Lin Yutang's works. Among them, many articles including "Moving Peking" and "Celebrating New Year's Day in the Old Calendar" were selected into the Ministry of Education's newly compiled Chinese textbooks and were accompanied by exquisite illustrations. Young readers can appreciate everyone's elegance, enrich their hearts and improve their reading skills at the same time. They can also get a glimpse of the master's creative methods and improve their writing skills.

China's Reason

China's Reason

Literature

Lin Yutang

100K0

The articles collected in this book are the author's fresh, sharp and accurate talks about various things in daily life, politics or society. Behind these short and poignant articles lies the author's love for life and his wise and broad-minded heart. While reading, readers can experience the author's humorous, leisurely and enjoyable life philosophy.

Beijing Smoke and Clouds (2 Volumes in Total)

Lin Yutang

527K01

Smoke and Clouds of Beijing (Commemorative Collector's Edition, 2 volumes in total) - Lin Yutang's prestigious work, a classic portrayal of modern Chinese society, commemorative collector's edition for the 40th anniversary of Lin Yutang's death.

Attitude Towards Life

Lin Yutang

111K0

This book is a new collection of Mr. Lin Yutang's classic prose, with a total of forty articles, selected from Lin Yutang's "Jianfu Collection", "Dahuang Collection", "Xingsu Collection", "Talk About Everything" and other prose collections. It includes articles such as "Composing and Being a Human Being", "The Art of Reading" and "Talk about Chinese and Western Culture". His prose sketches are mainly in a casual and elegant style without losing his character, with a mixture of solemnity and humor, elegance and vulgarity. The writing is witty and humorous, and the discussion is lively. This book is a collection of his essays, which talk about life, life, interests, and culture, inspiring and thought-provoking.

American Wisdom (2 Volumes in Total)

Lin Yutang

362K01

"American Wisdom (Collector's Edition) (set of 2 volumes)" includes "American Wisdom Part 1" and "American Wisdom Part 2", a total of 2 volumes. "American Wisdom (Collector's Edition) (set of 2 volumes)" introduces many important philosophers and writers since the founding of the United States, such as Franklin, Emerson, Thoreau, Santayana, etc. The content covers all aspects of social life: life, life, emotion, freedom, happiness, nature, religion, humor and irony, love and marriage, war and peace, etc. Reading "American Wisdom (Collector's Edition) (set of 2 volumes)" is tantamount to communicating with many great and wise minds, and the soul will be purified and sublimated.

Our Country and Our People

Lin Yutang

204K0

"My Country and My People" (My Country and My People), also known as "The Chinese", 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, literature and art, and life interests. It beautifully explains Chinese character, soul, ideals, life, politics, society, and art, and makes extensive and in-depth comparisons with Western characters, ideals, and life. It caused a sensation at home and abroad, was translated into many languages, and was widely circulated around the world.

Chinatown (commemorative Collector's Edition)

Lin Yutang

156K01

The author uses prose style and uses the life experience of a family in his hometown of his childhood as a source of mutual support and love to describe the story of Old Tom and his family from Fujian, China, who worked together to "start a business" in Chinatown, New York, and finally realized the "American Dream" through hard work and honest efforts. Like other themes of cultural nostalgia, the integration of Chinese and Western cultures is Lin Yutang's major contribution to overseas Chinese literature in this work.

The Newly Revised Edition of the Works of the Great Master Lin Yutang (25 Volumes in Total)

Lin Yutang

4.5M0

This set of books is a newly revised collection of Lin Yutang's works, with a total of 25 volumes. They are "Beijing Smoke and Clouds: Complete 2 Volumes", "The Rumbling of the Cranes", "The Rich Gates", "My Country and My People", "The Art of Living", "The Biography of Su Dongpo", "Chinese Legend", "China's Reason", "The Big City of Beijing", "Moving Peking", "Original Freedom", "Attitude in Life", "Laozi" "The Wisdom of Confucius", "The Wisdom of China", "The Wisdom of India", "The Wisdom of the United States: 2 Volumes", "A Fair Talk about Gao E", "The True Story of Wu Zetian", "Lai Boying", "Unlucky", "Strange Island", "From Pagan to Christian", "Chinatown", "Red Peony". "Beijing Yanyun: Complete 2 Volumes": The book tells the story of the joys and sorrows, grievances, and grievances of the three families of Zeng, Yao, and Niu in Peking from the Boxer Rebellion in 1901 to the Anti-Japanese War for more than 30 years. The book has a grand structure; the clues are intertwined; it panoramically displays the rapid and profound changes that have taken place in modern Chinese society; it is known as the modern version of "Dream of Red Mansions". "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; 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." "The Vermillion Gate", "The Vermillion Gate", "The Smoke and Clouds of Beijing" and "The Wind and Crane" are collectively known as the "Lin Yutang Trilogy". This novel was published in 1953; it mainly tells the love legend of two Xi'an people - journalist Li Fei and famous lady Du Rou'an who cross family lines. The novel not only describes the 3rd century in the 20th century. It follows the cultural landscape and turbulent situation of the ancient city of Xi'an in the 1900s; it also follows the experiences of the two protagonists; it also spends a lot of words describing the vast customs of Western Xinjiang; and the legendary stories that happened in that land where races are mixed and in constant struggle; and it reveals the author's humanitarian feelings of equality and fraternity everywhere. "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, wise and insightful The language eloquently describes the morality, mental state and aspirations of the Chinese people; as well as China's society, culture and life interests. It explains the Chinese people's character, soul, ideals, life, politics, society and art very beautifully; it also makes in-depth comparisons with the Western people's character, ideals and life; it has caused a sensation at home and abroad. "The Biography of Su Dongpo": Su Dongpo is an optimist whose nature is hard to change; he is a moralist who is compassionate and compassionate. He is a prose writer; he is a painter of the new school; he is a great calligrapher; he is an experimenter in brewing; he is an engineer; he is an opponent of false Taoism; he is a practitioner of yoga; he is a Buddhist; he is a scholar-official; he is the secretary of the emperor; he is a drinker; he is a compassionate judge; he is a political stickler; he is a walker under the moon; he is a poet; he is a person who is witty and loves to joke. But this is not enough to describe all of Su Dongpo.

Red Peony (commemorative Collector's Edition)

Lin Yutang

238K0

This book describes a true-hearted woman named Hong Mudan who pursues true love. After being newly widowed, she bravely breaks away from the shackles of her husband's family, boldly rebels against traditional ethics, pursues freedom of love, and pursues "ideal love."

Zhumen (commemorative Collector's Edition)

Lin Yutang

211K01

This novel mainly tells the story of the love story between two people from Xi'an, reporter Li Fei and famous lady Du Rou'an, who crossed the boundaries of their family background. 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, as well as the legendary stories that happened in that land of mixed races and constant struggles, and reveals the author's humanitarian feelings of equality and fraternity everywhere.

Beijing Smoke and Clouds (complete Works) (commemorative Collector's Edition)

Lin Yutang

527K8.770

This book is Lin Yutang's long-standing and prestigious work. The text reflects the author's strong patriotism, sincere love for traditional Chinese culture and life details, and a very vital Lao-Zhuang philosophical realm. It is an encyclopedic masterpiece. The book draws on the ups and downs of the three major families, Yao, Zeng and Niu, to depict the 40-year social landscape from the Boxer Rebellion in the late Qing Dynasty to the early days of the Anti-Japanese War in the Republic of China. Movement, the "March 18th" massacre, the writing battle between the "Yusi School" and the "Modern Criticism School", the Northern Expedition, the outbreak of World War II and other historical events, with many characters and grand scenes, panoramically showing the rapid and profound changes that have taken place in modern Chinese society, and is known as the modern version of "Dream of Red Mansions".