Author: Paul Yih (---.mad.wi.charter.com)
Date: 01-08-05 20:51
I think of Lin as a remarkable man - but like all Chinese of his era - the tearing up of the Chinese partisanship had indeed made him wanting to side with the KMT or Chiang.
In part where I have read his rectorship in Nanyang University where he might have appeared to be slightly pompous and spoiled by his living in the US, but in more than one occasion he was equally critical of the American values -
I guess, thinkers, writers and philosophers are those who dare to speak out of the society or societies where they have lived in. Lin was no exception to be one of those open minded writer.
I still having a tough time in seeing while Lin had not endorse the CCP or the regime change. My father for one who had gone to Paris, who had his associates from both aisles of the two parties, who had gone on to Europe as the other who had gone on to Japan or the US, finding way to build the kind of intellectual infrastructure of the post Manchu and post war China -- and yet, many must have been equally disappointed to see the split of the two parties.
I would like to find out more from forumites of their views of Lin Yutang - be that he was pampered or pompous during his stay in Nanyang -- his demands might have been a bit over burdening the time and moment in Singapore. But I have enjoyed his books and many of his writings that were most candid, open and to the point , he seldom "beat around the bushes" Maybe that his wife was an ardent Christian and in view of the Christianity of the Sung family -- where their own religiosity may have influenced Lin's view toward the atheistic China, but then agian, LIn was highly praised by Pearl Buck and many others.
I love to hear more views on Lin and his political stance during that time of the Chinese conflict .
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