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Yutang Lin

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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).
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His wife, Lin Tsuifeng (née Liao) was an author who wrote three cookbooks which popularized Chinese cuisine in the English speaking world. Lin wrote introductions to those cookbooks.
Lin was a renowned linguist, writer, philosopher and inventor.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.
I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing.
I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its leaves are a little yellow, its tone mellower, its colours richer, and it is tinged a little with sorrow and a premonition of death. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor of the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and is content. From a knowledge of those limitations and its richness of experience emerges a symphony of colours, richer than all, its green speaking of life and strength, its orange speaking of golden content and its purple of resignation and death.
Human life can be lived like a poem.

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