North and Sound is an essay mainly talking about the differences of Chinese and ends with author’s reflection towards the gloomy doom of our country. The plight has been witnessed all over the world. It starts with a personal view to the research about history and a time of a nation, introducing with foreign countries, which developed with huge and thick culture like China while were trapped i...(2回应)
By Berlin Lyon and Zane Lee My Country and My People is Lin Yutang's famous and representative work in the Western literary world. The book explains the character, mind, ideals, life, politics, society, and art of Chinese people in a wonderful way. The book has caused a sensation at home and abroad, and has been highly praised by many prominent people in the United States. The first session of ...
To understand the history of an era, you need to understand the "important figures" of the era. However, to understand and study a country, we should start from the common people of a country. The development of history, I believe, is the result of a leading person's leading behavior, which becomes a landmark of historical development; but the development of a country is the result of the join...
First reading of this part, I was shocked by the structure which is extremely complete and delicate. I read the prologue and probably knew why the author wrote the great work. China had undergone great changes in the last century, two generations of the youth had different views of the country and the world. Both of their views are prejudiced and one-sided. What is China really like ? If you wa...
About North and South My Country and My People was written by Lin Yutang, which was first published in 1935 in English. Reading the brief introduction of it, I basically know the content of this book. And, it’s a book which introduced Chinese cultural development, emotional and moral life, viewpoints about religion, social and political life, and daily life in 1900s. In the first chapter, The ...
But who is the common man, and what is he? The China-man exists only as a general abstraction in our mind. See how the Chinese in that era told the story of the Chinese people to the world --The book review of My Country and My People by Lin Yutang The first chapter of this book focuses on the differences and integration between the northern and southern people in China. Happily, within the orb...
这个单词mellow（ness）林语堂特别喜欢，另外一个单词是wayward（ness）。他在形容某些书的气质的时候用过mellow，另外再就是形容中国人的总体民族气质的这一章，但是具体怎么翻译呢，有趣的问题。😊。语堂编写的开明汉英字典里，基本会把mellow跟醇厚这个意思联系起来，但是总不能形容中国人的气质是醇厚吧。 也许翻译成“成熟”、“世故”比较合适。 “A mellow understanding of life and of human nature is, and always ...(1回应)
simplicity是非常被突出强调的一种Chinese racial temperament. 穿插着对于civilization和happiness的思考，非常值得品味： “It was as if man knew the benefits of civilization and knew also the dangers of it. Man knew the happiness of the joys of life, but also was aware of its ephemeral nature, fearful of the jealousy of the gods, and was willing to take the joys that were simpler but would last long...
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