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Book Recommendation My Country and My People By Lin Yutang Lin Yutang My Country and My People 《吾国与吾民》 Originally written in English, was the first bestseller of Lin in the U.S. By his frank and humorous describing of the Chinese character and mind, as long as the arts, society and living pleasures, he introduced a true and rich Chinese image to the western world. 原书用英文写作，是林语堂第一部在美国引起巨大反响的英文著作。该书用坦率幽默的笔调道出了中国人的性格和心灵，以及中国的社会、文艺与生活情趣，向西方展示了一个真实而丰富的民族形象。 Chapter 1 The Chinese People Chapter 2 The Chinese Character Chapter 3 The Chinese Mind Chapter 4 Ideals of Life Chapter 5 Woman’s Life Chapter 6 Social and Political Life Chapter 7 Literary Life Chapter 8 The Artistic Life Chapter 9 The Art of Living It is, I think, the truest, the most profound, the most complete, the most important book yet written about China. And, best of all, it is written by a Chinese, a modern, whose roots are firmly in the past, but whose rich flowering is in the present. －－Pearl S. Buck 我认为这是迄今为止最真实、最深刻、最完备、最重要的一部关于中国的著作。更值得称道的是，它是由一位中国人写的，一位现代的中国人。他的根基深深地扎在过去，他丰硕的果实却结在今天。 －－赛珍珠 * * Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2009 A famous Chinese writer, scholar, linguist and inventor. 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. My Country and My People The Importance of Living The Wisdom of Confucius Moment in Peking On the Wisdom of America *