The Cross-Cultural Legacy of Lin Yutang: Critical Perspectives

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Contributors
Introduction. Western Universalism and Chinese Identity: Lin Yutang as a Cross-Cultural Critic - Qian Suoqiao
PART I. TRADITION AND RELIGION: AN ALTERNATIVE INTELLECTUAL PATH
	1. On Lin Yutang: Between Revolution and Nostalgia - Chih-ping Chou
	2. Lin Yutang’s Unique Adoption of Tradition - Charles Laughlin
	3. A Bundle of Contradictions: Lin Yutang’s Relationship to Christianity - Yang Liu
PART II. LANGUAGE AND LAW: CULTURE AND POLITICS IN THE 1920s AND 1930s
	4. Lin Yutang and the National Language Movement in Modern China - Peng Chunling (translated by Wang Lu and Fang Lu)
	5. The “Fair Society” (Pingshe) in the Diaries of Lin Yutang and Hu Shi - Chen Zishan (translated by Richard Sheung)
PART III. CROSS-CULTURAL TRAVELS BETWEEN CHINA AND THE WEST
	6. Lin Yutang’s Criticism of Criticism of Criticism: On Self-Expression in China and America - Diran John Sohigian
	7. Collaborator or Cannibal? Montaigne’s Role in Lin Yutang’s Importance of Living - Rivi Handler-Spitz
	8. The Genesis and Reception of My Country and My People - Qian Suoqiao
PART IV. INTERPRETING CHINA AND CHINESE IN AMERICA
	9. His Country and His Language: Lin Yutang and the Interpretation of Things Chinese - Joe Sample
	10. Reconstructing the Image of a Chinese Courtesan for Western Readers: Lin Yutang’s Miss Tu and His Cross-Cultural Rewriting Strategies - Fang Lu
	11. The Several Worlds of Lin Yutang’s Gastronomy - Charles W. Hayford
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