EP331 吾國與吾民和生活的藝術 林語堂如何改變了西方看中國的眼光

他出生在福建省一個偏遠的小山村。他的父親是一個鄉下的基督教牧師。但他後來在美國的暢銷書排行榜上停留了超過兩年。他讓全世界以不同的眼光看待中國文化。他叫林語堂。 林語堂一八九五年生於福建。在上海聖約翰大學打下英文基礎。後來到哈佛和萊比錫大學取得博士學位。回國後他在北京和上海的大學任教。並創辦以幽默和批評著稱的文學雜誌。他也是最早把英文humor翻譯成中文幽默的人之一。 一九三五年他用英文寫了吾國與吾民。一九三七年出版了生活的藝術。這兩本書讓西方讀者第一次真正從人的角度理解了中國。他還花了幾十年研究中文打字機。申請了專利。雖然損失了大量積蓄。但他說他不後悔。 他晚年定居台灣陽明山。一九七六年在香港去世。 今天的沉思者J。我們走進這個用幽默搭橋的人的故事。 He was born in a remote mountain village in Fujian Province. His father was a rural Christian pastor. Yet he spent more than two years on the American bestseller list. He gave the world a completely new way of seeing Chinese culture. His name was Lin Yutang. Born in Fujian in 1895, Lin Yutang built his English at St. John's University in Shanghai and went on to earn a doctorate from the University of Leipzig. Back in China he taught at universities in Beijing and Shanghai and edited literary magazines known for humor and social commentary. He was also one of the first to render the English word humor into the Chinese term youmo. In 1935 he published My Country and My People, and in 1937 The Importance of Living. Both books gave Western readers their first genuine human-scale understanding of China and Chinese philosophy. He also spent decades working on a Chinese typewriter, eventually receiving a patent -- though the project consumed much of his savings. He said he had no regrets. He settled in Taipei in his later years and died in Hong Kong in 1976. Today on Thinker J, we walk into the life of the man who built his bridge out of laughter. 林語堂, Lin Yutang, 生活的藝術, 吾國與吾民, 幽默, 東西文化交流, 沉思者J, Thinker J, 向大師致敬, 中國哲學, 閒適, 蘇東坡, Jenny, 傳記, 文學家, 中文打字機, 福建, 台灣, 偉大人物, 文化橋樑 Powered by Firstory Hosting