为中国和中国人作传的一种方式——以《吾国与吾民》为例

Writing Biographies for China and Her People:Reading Lin Yutang’s My Country and My People

林语堂在《吾国与吾民》等作品中充满激情地向强势的欧美世界输出作为整体的中国文化。他从一个创作家而非研究者的身份出发,按照自己对中国文化的理解,把中国人与中国文化描述为快乐、自然、幸福的基本正面形象,以此作为疗治西方现代工业文明病痛的良药。这一改造与其本人的性格、文风相一致。从效果上看,他达成了很好的普及效果。

Lin Yutang recommends Chinese Culture as a unity to the readers of the English-speaking countries enthusiastically.Lin Yutang,as a writer rather than a scholar,describing China and Chinese Culture as happy,natural and humorous,attempts to use them as an effective solution to the modern industrial problem haunting the modern Western culture.His description is consistent with his own personality and writing style.As the result,his works are ever popular.