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This chapter discusses Lin Yutang’s life and works during the first phase of his three-decades-long “American years,” namely, from his landing on August 25, 1936, to December 7, 1941, when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and brought the USA into the war, along three lines: first, his instantaneous reporting on China at war along with his experiences returning back to and then back from war-time China; second, his representation of the rise of modern China baptized at war; and third, his literary and artistic portrayal of China through his two bestseller war-time novels—Moment in Peking and A Leaf in the Storm.
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Qian, S. (2017). Culture and War: Interpreting Modern China. In: Lin Yutang and China’s Search for Modern Rebirth. Canon and World Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4657-5_8
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