Lin Yutang
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
Working name of Chinese-US author, essayist and academic Lin Yü-t'ang (1895-1976), his most important scholarly achievement (in strong contrast to his many volumes of popularized wisdom) being the Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage (1972). In his one sf novel, The Unexpected Island (1955; vt Looking Beyond 1955), refugees from several world Holocausts establish a conservative Ruined Earth Utopia on an isolated Island. [JC]
Lin Yü-t'ang
born Changhow, China: 10 October 1895
died 26 March 1976
works
- The Unexpected Island (London: William Heinemann, 1955) [hb/]
- Looking Beyond (Englewood, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1955) [vt of the above: hb/]
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