The cross-cultural legacy of Lin Yutang
Subtitle: critical perspectives
By: edited by Qian Suoqiao
Series: China research monograph -- 72; China research monographs -- no. 72.
Publisher: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781557291691
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Western universalism and Chinese identity : Lin Yutang as a cross-cultural critic  -- Qian Suoqiao; title: On Lin Yutang: between revolution and nostalgia  -- Chih-ping Chou; title: Lin Yutang's unique adoption of tradition  -- Charles Laughlin; title: A bundle of contradictions: Lin Yutang's relationship to Christianity  -- Yang Liu; title: Lin Yutang and the national language movement in Modern China  -- Peng Chunling; title: The "Fair Society" (Pingshe) in the diaries of Lin Yutang and Hu Shi  -- Chen Zishan; title: Lin Yutang's criticism of criticism of criticism: on self-expression in China and America  -- Diran John Sohigian; title: Collaborator of cannibal? Montaigne's role in Lin Yutang's Importance of Living  -- Rivi Handler-Spitz; title: The genesis and reception of My Country and My People  -- Qian Suoqiao; title: His country and his language: Lin Yutang and the interpretation of things Chinese  -- Joe Sample; title: Reconstructing the image of a Chinese courtesan for Western readers: Lin Yutang's Miss Tu and his cross-cultural rewriting strategies  -- Fang Lu; title: The several worlds of Lin Yutang's gastronomy -- Charles W. Hayford.