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Lin Yutang's Interpretation of Li and His Early Thoughts on Traditional Chinese Culture

Xinxin Chen

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The beginning of the last century witnessed the entrance of western culture into China.Lin Yutang,as a Chinese literati expert at both western and Chinese culture,made some efforts to maintain Chinese traditional morals and criticized such values in western culture as individualism. \n \n在本世紀初無法抵擋的西潮侵襲之下,林語堂作為從西方文明再次走入中國傳統文化的中國知識分子,在維護中國的傳統道德觀念同時,并不完全認同當時西方的一些觀念,如個人主義。

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The beginning of the last century witnessed the entrance of western culture into China.Lin Yutang,as a Chinese literati expert at both western and Chinese culture,made some efforts to maintain Chinese traditional morals and criticized such values in western culture as individualism. \n \n在本世紀初無法抵擋的西潮侵襲之下,林語堂作為從西方文明再次走入中國傳統文化的中國知識分子,在維護中國的傳統道德觀念同時,并不完全認同當時西方的一些觀念,如個人主義。

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The beginning of the last century witnessed the entrance of western culture into China.Lin Yutang,as a Chinese literati expert at both western and Chinese culture,made some efforts to maintain Chinese traditional morals and criticized such values in western culture as individualism. \n \n在本世紀初無法抵擋的西潮侵襲之下,林語堂作為從西方文明再次走入中國傳統文化的中國知識分子,在維護中國的傳統道德觀念同時,并不完全認同當時西方的一些觀念,如個人主義。

Key concepts: Individualism, China, Interpretation (philosophy), Chinese culture, Western culture, Indian culture, Sociology, History

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