Word: yutang
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...Yutang, who not only wrote Importance of Living but managed to invent a Chinese typewriter, was chosen by UNESCO as just the man to head its Arts & Letters section...
...Floyd, Eastern potentates, bestsellers, babysitting, Eva Perón, the War Assets Administration and Existentialism. Strunsky's skillful use of the telling fact, the apt comparison, the impeccable word made "Topics" a model of the vanishing essay form. Without blushing, his admirers, from Franklin P. Adams to Lin Yutang, compared Strunsky to Addison & Steele and Charles Lamb...
...GENIUS [427 pp.) - Lin Yutang-John...
...China some 900 years ago, there lived a thin-faced little man with a mandarin beard named Su Tungpo. According to Biographer Lin Yutang, Su Tungpo was "an incorrigible optimist, a great humanitarian, a friend of the people, a prose master, an original painter, a great calligraphist, an experimenter in winemaking, an engineer, a hater of puritanism, a yogi, a Buddhist believer, a Confucian statesman, a secretary to the emperor, a confirmed winebibber, a humane judge, a dissenter in politics, a prowler in the moonlight, a poet...
...YUTANG...