Lin Yutang and China’s Search for Modern Rebirth

Dr Qian Suoqiao is Chair Professor of Chinese Studies at Newcastle University, UK. He received his PhD in comparative literature from the University of California, Berkeley and had taught in a number of universities in the US, China and Hong Kong. He has published widely in Chinese studies in both English and Chinese, particularly on Chinese modernity studies and cross-cultural studies between China and the world.

• Lin Yutang and China’s Intellectual Journey to Modernity.- Christian Childhood and Westernized Education.- “Thus Spoke Zarathustra:” A Progressive Nationalist for the Great Revolution.- From “Little Critic” to “Master of Humor”.- Struggling Against the “Double Dangers of Bolshevism and Fascism”.- “My China”: The East Speaks to the West.- Coming to America: the Birth of a “Chinese Philosopher”.- Culture and War: Interpreting Modern China.- Eastern Wisdom: Race, Empire and World Peace.- Loss of China and Wisdom of America.- “Looking Beyond” the Iron Curtain.- Grand Finale: “I Take My Leave and Depart”.