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Book #20 on The China Project’s Ultimate China Bookshelf – Lin Yutang’s My Country and My People, 1935

Posted: May 26th, 2023 | No Comments »

Book #20 on The China Project Ultimate China Bookshelf is the stylish, witty and ever-sophistcated L:in Yutang’s 1935 My Country and My People, a book that introduced China to so many western readers and in a time of mutual curiousity and friendship almost unimaginable now…click here.

By the way, Internet Archive has a downloadable version of the book (which has been out of print for some time now) for free – here.

Lin Yutang (Photo by Carl Van Vechten)


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