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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Yutang Lin

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