1、Lin Yutang is a great linguist, an outstanding scholar, and a writer full of creativityand imagination. It is widely believed that his greatest contribution is that he canteach the Chinese Western culture and the western

2、ers' Chinese culture, thusbridging the gap between the Chinese and the Western culture. Moment in Peking is a historical novel originally written in English by Lin Yutang.The story describes the ups and downs of thre

3、e wealthy families, the Yao, theTseng and the New, with vivid depictions of many representative characters withdistinct personalities. It's a novel of broad canvas, which began with the BoxerRebellion in 1901 and ended i

4、n 1937 at the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War.The uniqueness of this novel lies in its profound cultural connotations. Moment inPeking combines his soul with his philosophy. In his novel, Lin Yutang extols acombinatio

5、n of Confucianism and Taoism, or to be exact, a life philosophy withTaoism being inside and Confucianism outside. This is vividly expressed by themain characters represented by Yao Mulan. This philosophical idea of combi

6、ningConfucianism with Taoism is in accordance with his humanistic philosophy. Thisis also a result of his reasoning in the conflicts of Chinese and Western culturalvalues, about the destiny of human culture from the pers