Yutang Lin(1895-1976)
- Writer
Chinese-American writer, translator, and editor. Nominated Nobel Prize
for his famous novel Moment in Peking which is written in English. In
1912, he entered Shanghai St. John University. Then he became a teacher
of Harved University in 1919. In 1923, he became professor of Peking
University. Lin spent most of his life in the United States and wrote
most of his many works in English, ncluding My Country and My People
(1935); A Leaf in the Storm (1941), about war-torn China; Between Tears
and Laughter (1943), and The Pleasures of a Nonconformist (1962). Among
his novels are Chinatown Family (1948) and The Flight of the Innocents
(1965). He translated and edited The Chinese Theory of Art
(1968).
