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Chapter 23 Chapter Thirteen Intensive Investigation and Inventory

Lin Yutang's Autobiography 林语堂 2973Words 2018-03-16
I must take stock of my work.My ambition is that all the novels I write can be handed down to the world.I have written several good books, namely:,; and several books on my views on China, yes; and seven novels, especially the trilogy:,,.Because I have been in the United States for many years in the past, these books have not been translated into Chinese.However, publishers in Shanghai and Hong Kong translated and published without permission. Some of the books they published were not written by me at all, and some were not translated by me. Translated and untranslated, there are at least a dozen such books.

In the winter I intend to have a reliable edition of my writing in Chinese printed. 1.Talk About Everything Episodes - Everything I've written is divided into the first, second, and last three episodes. 2.Lin Yutang Selected Works - (two volumes) Chinese writing before the 24th year of the Republic of China, including articles written in "Yusi", "Human World", and "Cosmic Wind". 3.On Gao E in all fairness——It is an answer to the opinion that the last forty chapters are fake works. It was printed in the 55th year of the Republic of China and published by Wenxing.Originally published in "Biographical Literature" magazine.

English works: 1. KaimingEnglish Grammar enlightened English law.In the eighteenth year of the Republic of China, it was printed by Kaiming Bookstore in Shanghai. 2. Letters of a Chinese Amazon and Narrative Essays, Xie Bingying's original "The Autobiography of a Female Soldier".It was published by Shanghai Commercial Press in the 19th year of the Republic of China. 3. TheLittleCritic (1, 2 episodes, from the 22nd to 24th years of the Republic of China). 4. ConfuciusSawNancyandOtherTranslations (Zijian Nanzi and other translations) Shanghai Business Edition in the 25th year of the Republic of China.

5. ANun ofTaishanandOtherTranslations (Lao Can's Travel Notes Sequel and Other Translations) Shanghai Business Edition in the 25th year of the Republic of China. The following is published in the United States.In London it is published by William Heine-mann. 6. A History of Chinese Press and Public Oninion in China (History of Chinese Press and Public Opinion) was published by University of Chicago in 1936. 7. MycountryandMypeople Published by American John Day in 1935. The second edition in 1936 was published by Reynal Hitchcock. 8. The Importance of Living (The Art of Living)

Published by John Day in 1937. 9. The WisdonofConfucius (the wisdom of Confucius) Published by RandomHouse in 1938. 10. MomentinPeking (fiction, Moment in Peking) Published by John Day in 1938. 11. With Love and Irony (love and thorn. Humorous essays) published in 1940 by William Heinemann. 12. ALeafintheStorm (The wind is jittery. The story of a Chinese girl during the Anti-Japanese War) Published by John Day in 1941. 13. The Wisdom of India and China (India and China's wisdom) Published by John Day in 1942. 14. RetweenTearsandLaughter Published by John Day in 1943. 15. TheVigilofaNation

Published by John Day in 1944. 16. TheGayGenius: LifeofSwTung-Po Published by John Day in 1947. 17. ChinatownFamily (Chinatown. Novels) published in 1948 by William Hienemann. 18. The Wisdom ofLaotse (Lao Tzu's Wisdom) In 1949 RandomHouse was published. 19. On the Wisdom of America (American Wisdom) Published by John Day in 1950. 20. Widow, Nunand Courtesan (widows, concubines and courtesans. English translation of three Chinese novels) Published by John Day in 1951. 21. FamousChineseShortStories (re-edited Chinese legendary novels) Published by John Day in 1952. 22. VermilionGate (Zhumen. Stories about Tibet, combined with Moment in Beijing and Crane in the Wind to form Lin's trilogy)

Published by John Day in 1953. 23. LookingBeyond (Vision. AKA TheUnexpectedIsland, Odd Island) Published by Prentice-Hall in 1955. 24. TheSecretName (Anonymous. About the Communist regime under Stalin) Published by William Hienemann in 1958. 25. TheChineseWayofLife (Chinese life. School books) In 1959 The World Publishing Co.publishing. 26. From PagantoChristianity (from Pagan to Christianity. World Religions, Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, Introduction to Christian Thought) In 1959 The World Publishing Co.publishing. 27. The Importance of Understangding (one hundred and one translations of famous Chinese poems and essays)

In 1960 The World Publishing Co.publishing. 28. TheRedPeony (Red Peony. Novels) 1961 TheWorldPublishingCo.publishing. 29. ImperialPeking: SevenCenturiesofPeking (Imperial Peking: Seven Centuries of Beijing's History) 1961 CrownPublishingCo.publishing. 30. The Pleasure of Nonconformist-South American Lectures and Other Reflections (South American Lectures and Other Reflections) In 1962 WorldPublishingCo.publishing. 31. JuniperLoa (Lai Baiying. Autobiographical novel) 1963 TheWorldPublishingCo.publishing. 32. The Flight of the Innocents (Escape to Liberty City. Fiction) In 1964 Putnam's Publishing Co.publishing.

33. Lady Wu (The True Story of Wu Zetian) In 1964 Putnam's Publishing Co.publishing. 34. The Chinese Theory of Art (Theory of Chinese Painting. Chinese-English translation, with introduction) In 1967 Putnam's Publishing Co.publishing. 35. Anglo - Chinese Dictionary of Current Usage (Contemporary Chinese-English Dictionary. With English Index) Published by Chinese University of Hongkong and McCraw Hill in 1972. 36. Red Chamber Dream (English translation and catalog of essays on Dream of the Red Chamber, from 1928 to 1973). The above list includes all my books and articles in The New York Times, Times, Asia, New Republic, Reader's Digest ), Harpers, The Forum, New York Times Magazine, and other publications.

Now I am handing over the complete works of my novels, seven in total, to Taiwan Meiya Book Company for publication in Taiwan. 1. MomentinPeking 2. ALeafintheStorm 3. VermilionGate (Great Gate) 4. ChinatownFamily (Chinatown) 5. Looking Beyond (TheUnexpectedIsland) 6. TheRedPeony (red peony) 7. JuniperLoa (Lai Baiying) Everything in the world comes and goes.It is the characters in the book that interest the general reader.The characters of Taoism are all shown in Zhong Mulan's father, Mr. Yao Lao, Lao Peng in Zhong Mulan, and Liang Hanlin in "Red Peony".
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