The Chinese Way of Life

Lin Yu-Tang

Cultivated and comprehensive is this review of China, ancient and modern, as delivered by one of China's most accomplished scholars, Lin Yutang. The history and geography of China, the moral (Confucianism) and religious (Buddhist) climate which dominates its politics, art, and ethic, the drama of its tyrants and its leaders, Chinese calligraphy, Chinese family life, the diagram of a great city--Peking, and finally, an analysis of contemporary China. A vast country boasting a population of over four hundred million, China is of singular importance both in terms of the history of civilized man and in the light of growing East-West interdependence. Lin Yutang maintains a dignity of style which is an organic outgrowth of his background, one which is in spirit oriental but bespeaks a comprehension both of Eastern and Western attitudes. – Kirkus Reviews

Chinese Philosophy

1959

World Publishing Company

English