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《苏东坡传》是由外语教学与研究出版社出版的。

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林语堂，1895年10月10日生于福建漳州，乳名和乐，名玉堂，又改语堂。22岁获上海圣约翰大学学士学位位，27岁获美国哈佛大学比较文学硕士学位。29位获德国莱比锡大学语言学博士学位，同年回国，先后执教于北京大学，北京大学，厦门大学和上海东吴大学，1936年后居住美国，此后主要用英文写作。1966年回国，定居台湾，1967年受聘为香港中文大学研究教授，1975年荣任国际笔会国际笔会副会长。1976年3月26晶病逝于香港。葬于台北阳明山故居。林语堂用英文创作和翻译的一系列经典作品深远，奠定了他在国际文坛上的重要地位。

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读林先生的书使人得到很大启发。我非常感激他，因为他的书使我大开眼界。只有一位优秀的中国人才能这样坦诚、信实而又毫不偏颇地论述他的同胞。 ——《纽约时报》星期日书评

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虽然他讲的是数十年前中国的精彩，但他的话，即使在今天，对我们每一个美国人都很受用。 ——美国总统布什

图书目录

FOREWORD PREFACE BOOK One CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH Chapter One Literary Patriotic Duke Chapter Two Meishan Chapter Three Childhood and Youth Chapter Four The Examinations Chapter Five Father and Sons BOOK TWO EARLY MANHOOD Chapter Six Gods, Devils, and Men Chapter Seven Experiment in State Capitalism Chapter Eight The Bull-headed Premier Chapter Nine The Evil That Men Do Chapter Ten The Two Brothers Chapter Eleven Poets, Courtesans, and Monks Chapter Twelve Poetry of Protest Chapter Thirteen The Yellow Tower Chapter Fourteen Arrest and Trial BOOK THREE MATURITY Chapter Fifteen Farmer of the Eastern Slope Chapter Sixteen Poet ofthe Red Cliff Chapter Seventeen Yoga and Alchemy Chapter Eighteen Years ofWanderings Chapter Nineteen Empress’S Favorite Chapter Twenty The Art of Painting Chapter Twenty—one The Art of Getting Out of Power Chapter Twenty-two Engineering and Famine ReHef Chapter Twenty-three Friend of the People BOOK FOUR YEARS OF EXILE Chapter Twenty-four Second Persecution Chapter Twenty-five Home in Exile Chapter Twenty—six Romance with Chaoyun Chapter Twenty-seven Outside China Chapter Twenty—eight The End Appendix A Chronological Summary Appendix B Bibliographyand Sources Appendix C Biographical Reference List Wade—Giles to Pinyin Conversion Table EnglishWorksbyLinYutang

文摘

As one Chinese name per person is more than enough for the Westernreader to follow, I shall always call the father Su Sbiin, the elder son Su Tungpo,and the younger son Su Tseyu, following the prevailing Chinese practice. Theconfusion arising from so many names adopted by one scholar takes up a greatdeal of the time of a student doing research in Chinese history. In Su Tungpo'stime at least eight persons had the same name, Mengteh, which meant that theperson's mother, before she conceived, had dreamed that she had a bay. When Tungpo was sixteen, there was an episode which put a heavy strainon the relationship between the father's and the mother's family, and whichreveals something of the father's character. As often happens in Chinesefamilies, the father has married Su Tungpo's elder sister to a first cousin in themother's family. We cannot know details at this late date, but we know that theyoung bride was unhappy in the Cheng family. Perhaps she was persecuted byher husband's relations. Anyway, she soon died and under circumstances thatstirred up Su Shiin's indignation. It seems the girl's father-in-law was a thoroughscoundrel. Su Shiin wrote a poem couched in bitter words and blaming himselffor his daughter's death. He then did an unusual thing. He compiled a familygenealogy, had it inscribed in stone, and erected a pavilion over it. To celebratethe occasion, he gathered the entire Su clan, before whom he intended toread a public denunciation of his wife's family. After the members of the clanhad poured wine offerings to the dead ancestors, Su said to the clansmen thata "certain" person in the village, meaning his wife's brother, represented apowerful family; that he had brought moral chaos into the village; that he haddriven out the orphan child of his own brother and monopolized the familyproperty; that he had placed his concubine above his wife and indulged inlicentious pleasures.