Ep. 277 | Lin Yutang, with The Chinese Literature Podcast Duo

The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

History, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In this China History Podcast episode, Laszlo teams up with Rob Moore and Lee Moore (no relation) from The Chinese Literature Podcast to explore the life and work of the highly influential writer Lin Yutang. Though rather unknown in our day, there was a time when Lin Yutang was the most recognizable name in the West who wrote and spoke about China. This episode explores his early years and later literary and political achievements during the 1930s to 1970s. Chinese Literature Podcast Website: https://www.chineseliteraturepodcast.com/ Subscribe to the Chinese Literature Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/chinese-literature-podcast/id1102235260

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone.
0:01.0	L'Asla Montgomery here with a special CHP episode, special because I've invited two
0:06.5	esteemed guests on the show to lend a modicum of expertise and gravitas to the episode.
0:13.9	If you're a listener of this Chinese literature podcast, you know Lee and Rob Moore.
0:19.5	Back in 2018, after numerous requests from a multitude of listeners to feature Lin Yutong
0:24.9	as a CHP topic, I reached out to Lee and Rob, and for a few years, we've gone back
0:30.6	and forth and said, we were going to cover this topic together.
0:33.8	I wanted to fly up to Oregon to do it in person, but after all this time, plus the whole
0:40.1	COVID thing, despite our best efforts, we never got it done until today.
0:46.4	So let me give a warm CHP welcome to Lee Moore and Rob Moore, proprietors of the Chinese
0:52.5	Literature Podcast.
0:54.3	Welcome, gentlemen.
0:55.3	Thank you.
0:56.3	It's a thrill to be on.
0:58.6	It's where we're huge fans.
1:00.3	I've been listening to the podcast since, man, probably 2013 when I was in Taiwan.
1:07.1	And you're the one lead that clued me into the podcast.
1:10.0	And the Chinese history, China history podcast is one of the reasons we started a podcast
1:15.2	in the first place, because we were like, hey, this is really great.
1:19.3	There's nothing like this though, just for literature.
1:21.9	So when we were thinking about starting the podcast, Lazlo, we actually kind of tried
1:26.3	to combine your podcast with the Seneca podcast and the sort of aeroditeness plus conversation
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