生活的艺术(林语堂英文库作品集)
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品牌: 林语堂
基本信息·出版社：外语教学与研究出版社
·页码：477 页
·出版日期：2009年
·ISBN：7560081398/9787560081397
·条形码：9787560081397
·包装版本：1版
·装帧：平装
·开本：32
·正文语种：英语
·丛书名：林语堂英文库作品集
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内容简介《生活的艺术》是林语堂旅美专事创作后的第一部书，也是他继《吾国与吾民》之后再获成功的又一英文作品。该书于1937年在美国出版，次年便居美国畅销书排行榜榜首达52周，且接连再版四十余次，并译成十余种外国文字。
作者简介林语堂(1895-1976)福建龙溪人。原名和乐，后改玉堂，又改语堂。1912年入上海圣约翰大学，毕业后在清华大学任教。1919年秋赴美哈佛大学文学系。1922年获义学硕士学位。同年转赴德国入莱比锡大学，专攻语言学。1923年获博士学位后回国，任北京大学教授、北京女子师范大学教务长和英文系主任。1924年后为《语丝》主要撰稿人之一。1926午到厦门大学任文学院长。1927年任外交部秘书。l932年主编《论语》半月刊。1934年创办《人间世》，1935年刨办《宇宙风》，提倡“以自我为中心，以闲适为格调”的小品文。1935年后，在美国用英文写《吾国与吾民》、《京华烟云》、《风声鹤唳》等文化著作和长篇小说。1944年曾一度回国到重庆讲学。1945年赴新加坡筹建南洋火学，任校长。1952年在美国与人创办“天风》杂志。1966年定居台湾。1967年受聘为香港中文大学研究教授。1975年被推举为国际笔会副会长。1976年在香港逝世。
目录
FORWARD
PREFACE
Chapter One THE AWAKENING
Ⅰ.APPROACH TO LIFE
Ⅱ.A PSEUDO-SCIENTIFIC FORMULA
Ⅲ.THE SCAMP AS IDEAL
Chapter Two VIEWS OF MANKIND
Ⅰ.CHRISTIAN, GREEK AND CHINESE
Ⅱ.EARTH-BOUND
Ⅲ.A BIOLOGICAL VIEW
Ⅳ.HUMAN LIFE A POEM
Chapter Three OUR ANIMAL HERITAGE
Ⅰ.THE MONKEY EPIC
Ⅱ.IN THE IMAGE OF THE MONKEY
Ⅲ.ON BEING MORTAL
Ⅳ.ON HAVING A STOMACH
Ⅴ.ON HAVING STRONG MUSCLES
Ⅵ.ON HAVING A MIND
Chapter Four ON BEING HUMAN
Ⅰ.ON HUMAN DIGNITY
Ⅱ.ON PLAYFUL CURIOSITY: THE RISE OF HUMAN CIVILIZATION
Ⅲ.ON DREAMS
Ⅳ.ON THE SENSE OF HUMOUR
Ⅴ.ON BEING WAYWARD AND INCALCULABLE
Ⅵ.THE DOCTRINE OF THE INDIVIDUAL
Chapter Five WHO CAN BEST ENJOY LIFE？
Ⅰ.FIND THYSELF: CHUANGTSE
Ⅱ.PASSION, WISDOM AND COURAGE: MENCIUS
Ⅲ.CYNICISM, FOLLY AND CAMOUFLAGE: LAOTSE
Ⅳ."PHILOSOPHY OF HALF-AND-HALF": TSESSE
Ⅴ.A LOVER OF LIFE: T'AO YUANMING
Chapter Six THE FEAST OF LIFE
Ⅰ.THE PROBLEM OF HAPPINESS
Ⅱ.HUMAN HAPPINESS IS SENSUOUS
Ⅲ.CHIN'S THIRTY-THREE HAPPY MOMENTS
Ⅳ.MISUNDERSTANDINGS OF MATERIALISM
Ⅴ.HOW ABOUT MENTAL PLEASURES?
Chapter Seven THE IMPORTANCE OF LOAFING
Ⅰ.MAN THE ONLY WORKING ANIMAL
Ⅱ.THE CHINESE THEORY OF LEISURE
Ⅲ.THE CULT OF THE IDLE LIFE
Ⅳ.THIS EARTH THE ONLY HEAVEN
Ⅴ.WHAT IS LUCK?
Ⅵ.THREE AMERICAN VICES
Chapter Eight THE ENJOYMENT OF THE HOME
Ⅰ.ON GETTING BIOLOGICAL
Ⅱ.CELIBACY A FREAK OF CIVILIZATION
Ⅲ.ON SEX APPEAL
Ⅳ.THE CHINESE FAMILY IDEAL
Ⅴ.ON GROWING OLD GRACEFULLY
Chapter Nine THE ENJOYMENT OF LMNG
Ⅰ.ON LYING IN BED
Ⅱ.ON SITTING IN CHAIRS
Ⅲ.ON CONVERSATION o
Ⅳ.ON TEA AND FRIENDSHIP
Ⅴ.ON SMOKE AND INCENSE
Ⅵ.ON DRINK AND WINE GAMES
Ⅶ.ON FOOD AND MEDICINE
Ⅷ.SOME CURIOUS WESTERN CUSTOMS
Ⅸ.THE INHUMANITY OF WESTERN DRESS
Ⅹ.ON HOUSE AND iNTERIORS
Chapter Ten THE ENJOYMENT OF NATURE
Ⅰ.PARADISE LOST?
Ⅱ.ON BIGNESS
Ⅲ.TWO CHINESE LADIES
Ⅳ.ON ROCKS AND TREES
Ⅴ.ON FLOWERS AND FLOWER ARRANGEMENTS
Ⅵ.THE "VASE FLOWERS" OF YUAN CHUNGLANG
Ⅶ.THE EPIGRAMS OF CHANG CH'AO
Chapter Eleven THE ENJOYMENT OF TRAVEL
Ⅰ.ON GOING ABOUT AND SEEING THINGS
Ⅱ."THE TRAVELS OF MINGLIAOTSE"
Chapter Twelve THE ENJOYMENT OF CULTURE
Ⅰ.GOOD TASTE IN KNOWLEDGE
Ⅱ.ART AS PLAY AND PERSONALITY
Ⅲ.THE ART OF READING
Ⅳ.THE ART OF WRITING
Chapter Thirteen RELATIONSHIP TO GOD
Ⅰ.THE RESTORATION OF RELIGION
Ⅱ.WHY I AMA PAGAN
Chapter Fourteen THE ART OF THINKING
Ⅰ.TIlE NEED OF HUMANIZED THINKING
Ⅱ.THE RETURN TO COMMON SENSE
Ⅲ.BE REASONABLE
CERTAIN CHINESE NAMES
A CHINESE CRITICAL VOCABULARY
WADE-GILES TO PINY1N CONVERSION TABLE
WORKS IN ENGLISH BY LIN YUTANG
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序言One morning in 19o5, or the 3tth year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu ofQing Dynasty, two brothers set out by boat from their hometown Boa-ah, amountain hamlet in Fujian Province on the southern coast of China, for theport city of Xiamen, some sixty miles away. The boys were full of excitementand chatter, especially the younger one. Yutang was ten years old, and today, hewas taking leave of his hometown and going with his brother to study in Xiamen.They were sons of Pastor Lin Zhicheng, who was born in the poor village ofWulisha. Pastor Lin was sending his sons to free missionary schools in Xiamen.
The Pastor was not a follower of convention, so the boys did not wearqueues. Yutang was a little guy, deeply tanned, with a prominent forehead, apair of sparkling eyes, and a narrow chin. Six miles later, when the skiff cameto Xiaoxi, the boys changed to a five-sail junk, and sailed toward Zhangzhouon West River. There were paddy fields and farmhouses on either side ofthe river, and tall mountains stood behind them, clad in grey-purplishhues. Yutang thought it inexpressibly beautiful. After a day's journey, the junkwas tied up against the bank under some bamboo trees. Yutang was told to liedown, cover himself with a blanket and go to sleep.
But sleep was the last thing on the boy's mind. The boatman sitting at the junk's stern was sucking at his pipe, and between gulps of bitter tea, telling stories about the Empress Dowager Cixi, who ruled the court today, having put the Emperor Guangxu under house arrest for supporting the reformers at the palace. Another junk was tied up on the opposite bank, brightly lit by lanterns. A soft breeze wafted sounds of merrymaking and music from a lute across the water. Oh, what a beautiful scene！
文摘An excellent illustration of a perfectly sound mind is provided by theEnglish. The English have got bad logic, but very good tentacles in theirbrains for sensing danger and preserving life. I have not been able to discoveranything logical in their national behaviour or their rational history. Theiruniversities, their constitution, their Anglican Church are all pieces ofpatchwork, being the steady accretions of a process of historical growth. Thevery strength of the British Empire consists in the English lack of cerebration,in their total inability to see the other man's point of view, and in their strongconviction that the English way is the only right way and English food is theonly good food. The moment Englishmen learn to reason and lose their strongconfidence in themselves, the British Empire will collapse. For no one cango about conquering the world if he has doubts about himself. You can make absolutely nothing out of the English attitude toward their king, their loyalty to, and their quite genuine affection for, a king who is deprived by them of the liberty of speech and is summarily told to behave or quit the throne.... When Elizabethan England needed pirates to protect the Empire, she was able to produce enough pirates to meet the situation and glorified them. In every period, England was able to fight the tight war, against the right enemy, with the right ally, on the right side, at the right time, and call it by a wrong name. They didn't do it by logic, did they？ They did it by their tentacles.
