I found a web site called Internet Archive that hosts some of Lin Yutang’s books, including my favorite The Importance of Living and My Country and My People. I am yet to dig this site for other valuables, but this finding is already sweet enough.
You can download his books here.
Note: This chronicle is my selective translation of the material on a site created by Bo Yang’s major publisher.
- 1920 Born.
- 1933 age 14. Couldn’t get along with his step-mother, and went back to his hometown to attend the primary school. He met the teacher Ke Fei, to whom he was greatly indebted for developing his interest in reading. He met the evil math teacher Hong Wanzun.
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April 30, 2008 – 11:15 am
He died on April 29, 2008 at the age of eighty nine (1920-2008).
His books I once read:
- The Ugly Chinaman
A relentless incision of the national character of the Chinese people.
- The Schematic History of Chinese People
The title is my translation. It is the best Chinese history book I ever read. This book is not just a history of China, but a panoramic presentation of the fate and the destiny of Chinese people. Your understanding of Chinese people will be greatly deepened after reading it.
- Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government or Zi Zhi Tong Jian in Chinese Pinyin.
Bo Yang translated this classic Chinese history chronicle by Sima Guang into modern Chinese. In the preface, Bo Yang said it was impossible to understand China without reading this book on Chinese history.
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