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The Cross-Cultural Legacy of Lin Yutang: Critical Perspectives (China Research Monograph 72)
Author(s): Qian Suoqiao (Editor)
- Publisher: Institute of East Asian Studies
- Publication Date: December 31, 2015
- Language: English
- Print length: 262 pages
- ISBN-10: 1557291691
- ISBN-13: 9781557291691
Book Description
Lin Yutang (1895–1976) was the modern Chinese writer and intellectual best known to the Western world in the twentieth century. Hailed as a “Chinese philosopher,” Lin was the de facto spokesman for China and Chinese culture and played the role of cultural ambassador between China and the United States. This critical volume, representing the best international scholarship on Lin Yutang studies to date, is a first attempt at a comprehensive study on the cross-cultural legacy of Lin’s literary practices in and across China and America. The essays collected here, most of which were first presented at the international conference on the cross-cultural legacy of Lin Yutang in China and America held at the City University of Hong Kong in December 2011, offer different perspectives on Lin’s cross-cultural legacy.
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About the Author
Qian Suoqiao 錢鎖橋 (also Qian Jun 錢俊) is professor and chair of Chinese studies at Newcastle University, UK. He is the author of Liberal Cosmopolitan: Lin Yutang and Middling Chinese Modernity (2011) and editor of Cross-Cultural Studies: China and the World (2015), Little Critic: The Bilingual Essays of Lin Yutang (2012), and Chinese American Literature: An Annotated Bilingual Bibliography (2011), in addition to other publications. He has just finished a monograph tentatively titled Lin Yutang: Journey across China and America, 1895–1976.