| Description |
xi, 291 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Note |
At head of title: Lin Yutang. |
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Essays. |
| Contents |
English and the Chinese -- Americans -- What I like about America -- Chinese and the Japanese -- Hirota and the child -- "Oh, break not my willow trees!" -- Captive Peking -- A hymn to Shanghai -- What I want -- What I have not done -- Crying at the movies -- Mickey Mouse -- Buying birds -- My library -- Confessions of a vegetarian -- On being naked -- How I moved into a flat -- How I celebrated New Year's Eve -- Ah Fong, my houseboy -- Convictions -- Do bedbugs exist in China? -- Funeral notices -- I committed a murder -- A trip to Anhwei -- Spring in my garden -- Freedom of speech -- Calisthenic value of kowtowing -- Confucius singing in the rain -- King George's prayer -- Coolie myth -- Beggars -- A bus trip -- Let's liquidate the moon -- In memoriam of the dog-meat general -- Lost Mandarin -- I like to talk with women -- Should women rule the world? -- In defense of Chinese girls -- In defense of gold diggers -- Sex imagery in the Chinese language -- Monks of Hangchow -- Monks of Tienmu -- A talk with Bernard Shaw -- A suggestion for summer reading -- The 500th anniversary of printing -- Basic English and pidgin -- Donkey that paid its debt -- Future of China -- Real threat: not bombs, but ideas. |
| Added Author |
Wiese, Kurt, 1887-1974.
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