Title: My country and my people,
Authors: Lin, Yutang, 1895-1976
Publisher: Reynal & Hitchcock
Year: 1935
Subjects: National characteristics, Chinese.; China Civilization.
Contents: pt. 1. Bases. The Chinese people. North and south ; Degeneration ; Infusion of new blood ; Cultural stability ; Racial youth -- The Chinese character. Mellowness ; Patience ; Indifference ; Old roguery ; Pacifism ; Contentment ; Humor ; Conservatism -- The Chinese mind. Intelligence ; Femininity ; Lack of science ; Logic ; Intuition ; Imagination -- Ideals of life. Chinese humanism ; Religion ; The doctrine of the golden mean ; Taoism ; Buddhism -- pt. 2. Life. Woman's life. The subjection of women ; Home and marriage ; Ideal of womanhood ; Education of our daughters ; Love and courtship ; The courtesan and concubinage ; Footbinding ; Emancipation -- Social and political life. Absence of the social mind ; The family system ; Nepotism, corruption and manners ; Privilege and equality ; Social classes ; The male triad ; The female triad ; The village system ; "Government by gentlemen" -- Literary life. A distinction ; Language and thought ; Scholarship ; The college ; Prose ; Literature and politics ; Literary revolution ; Poetry ; Drama ; The novel ; Influence of Western literature -- The artistic life. The artist ; Chinese calligraphy ; Painting ; Architecture -- The art of living. The pleasures of life ; House and garden ; Eating and drinking -- Epilogue. The end of life ; Real China ; A quest for leadership ; The way out.