Momento en pekin es una novela escrita originalmente en ingles por chinos autor lin yutang. His informal but polished style in both chinese and english made him one of the most influential writers of his generation, and his compilations and translations of classic chinese texts into english were bestsellers in the west. This biography provides detailed information about. Moment in peking is a novel originally written in english by chinese author lin yutang. His informal but polished style in both chinese and english made him one of the most influential writers of his generation, and. Pearl buck for the first time took away the stage props, and made the chinese living, moving. Nora waln gave us some some sense of that life, but she, after all was an outsider. But lin yutang, in this novel of china, written in english but adhering closely to the chinese manner, has taken us into the inner courts of family life, has told the story of peking upperclass girls, an officials household, with marriages and intermarriages confusing. Reviewed in the united kingdom on september 27, 20. The novel, lin s first, covers the turbulent events in china from 1900 to 1938, including the boxer uprising, the republican revolution of 1911, the warlord era, the rise of nationalism and communism, and the start of the sinojapanese war of 19371945. Tomo i by yutang, lin and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. October 10, 1895 march 26, 1976 was a chinese inventor, linguist, novelist, philosopher, and translator.
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