无常命运中的审美人生——从姚木兰看林语堂的文化理想

Esthetic Life in Variable Destiny——A Probe into Lin Yutang's Cultural Ideal

由于历史、政治的原因,林语堂的文学作品在当时的中国曾遭遇主流意识形态的批判,其英文小说更是由于翻译等众多原因不被中国读者所赏识。从文化角度而言,其早期代表作《京华烟云》通过姚木兰这一文学形象为读者营构了一个独特的审美时空,集中体现了林语堂的人文理想。

Lin Yutang＇s literary works were once criticized in the past in China because of the factor of history and the politics etc and his English novels were misunderstood by Chinese readers by reason of translation and so on. But the novel Moment in Peking by Lin Yutang made a unique esthetie world for the readers, and has prominently manifested Lin Yutang＇s cultural ideal.