Lin Yutang

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| birth_place = Banzai, Fujian | image = Linyutang.jpg | caption = Lin photographed in 1939 by Carl Van Vechten | occupation = Linguist, novelist, philosopher, translator | education = | death_date = | death_place = British Hong Kong | spouse = Lin Tsui-feng (née Liao) | children = Adet Lin
Lin Tai-yi
Lin Hsiang-ju | module = | gr = Lin Yeutarng | poj = Lîm Gí-tông | mi = | ci = | bpmf = ㄌㄧㄣˊ ㄩˇ ㄊㄤˊ }} }} Lin Yutang (10 October 1895 – 26 March 1976) was a Chinese writer, linguist, and inventor. A prolific bilingual writer in both Chinese and English, he was celebrated for pioneering a humorous prose style in modern Chinese literature and for serving as a cultural bridge between China and the West, most notably through ''My Country and My People'' (1935) and his English translations of Chinese classics. As a linguist, he compiled a series of ESL textbooks for Chinese learners in the 1930s and later produced an English–Chinese dictionary in the 1970s. As an inventor, he designed a Chinese typewriter, which was patented in the United States in 1952, though it was never mass-produced. From 1940 to 1973, Lin received six nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Provided by Wikipedia