After returning to China, he taught in Tsinghua University, Peking University and Xiamen University. 1945 went to Singapore to set up Nanyang University as the president. He used to be the director of fine arts and literature of UNESCO and the vice chairman of the International Pen Club. Lin Yutang was nominated by Nobel Prize in Literature twice in 1940 and 1950. His works include the novels Clouds in Beijing and Crying. Prose essays, the feast of life, the art of life, and the translation of Selected Poems of Dongpo and Six Chapters of a Floating Life. 1966 lived in Taiwan Province province, 1967 was employed by the Chinese University of Hong Kong as a research professor and presided over the compilation of Lin Yutang's Contemporary Chinese-English Dictionary. /kloc-0 died in hong kong in 1976 at the age of 8 1.
1919 65438+1On October 9th, Lin Yutang married Liao Cuifeng, the second daughter of Liao Jia, the richest man in Gulangyu. Shortly after their marriage, the husband and wife went to the United States to study together. They have three daughters, the eldest daughter Lin Fengru (Ruth), the second daughter Lin Yuru (Taiyi) and the youngest daughter Lin Xiangru.
First, the eldest daughter Lin Fengru
Lin Fengru, 1923 was born in Xiamen in May. 1In August, 936, she went to America with her father's family. After Lin Ruth settled in new york, she took off her cheongsam and put on the uniform of Taulton School in new york, and began to receive a comprehensive western education. Later, she also received the top higher education in America at Columbia University. Influenced by his father, he also likes literature. When I was in middle school, I was able to write in English and began to publish articles and monographs, which was appreciated by literary giants such as Pearl Buck.
1945, Lin Rusi, who has passed the prime of life, is in bud and knows the military doctor Wang who works in the wartime health personnel training institute. He is a talented young man who graduated from Peking Union Medical College. Lin Yutang and his wife are also very satisfied with this promising young man. Both parents agreed to let them go back to the United States to get married after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.
Unexpectedly, just before the engagement, the quiet and introverted Lin Ruth eloped with Dick, the younger brother of an American classmate. Dick, the son of the owner of an advertising company, was expelled from school before he graduated from junior high school. Lin Yutang felt that Dick was unreliable and worried about his daughter. Sure enough, in the later days, Lin Rusi lived a poor and homeless life, and they divorced on 1955.
Two years after the divorce, Lin Rusi was admitted to the hospital and suffered from severe depression. After leaving the hospital, her mood fluctuated. In good times, she was a smart and beautiful woman, working as a translator in a publishing company. In the next ten years, Lin Rusi went in and out of the mental hospital several times, but failed to get rid of the torture of depression. She committed suicide on 197 1 year 1 month due to years of depression.
Second and second daughters Lin Yuru (Taiyi)
Lin Yuru, 1926 was born in Beijing in April. 1936 Lin Taiyi primary school went to the United States with his family before graduation, only a few months before graduation. Mrs. Lin went to Europe with her family and once made up her French in Paris. 1April, 939, the Lins moved back to America. Mrs Lin began to study at Taulton Middle School in new york. At the beginning of 1943, the Lins arrived in Chongqing, the capital, and lived in Beibei, a mountainous area. The family lived a disastrous life of air raids all day. In August of the same year, they went to America again. Lin Taiyi tried to catch up with the school courses. Finally, she graduated from high school with the title of "honorary graduate". During this period, she wrote and published the first English novel "War Tide" with the theme of China people resisting Japan and saving the nation. After the book came out, it received a good response, and critics called it "chicken version of war and peace." At this time, she was 17 years old.
1949, she married China scholar Li Ming (first as a translator at the United Nations, then as the president of the Chinese University of Hong Kong Press), and they had two children, a man and a woman.
Lin Taiyi inherited Lin Yutang's literary talent. 1April, 952, father Lin Yutang founded the monthly magazine Tianfeng in new york, with Lin Taiyi and her husband Liming as editors. She is also the editor-in-chief of the Chinese version of Reader's Digest, and has written such famous works as Biography of Lin Yutang, The Second Daughter of the Lins, Jinpan Street, etc. From 65438 to 0995, Lin Taiyi attended the symposium on Lin Yutang's centenary birthday held by Xiamen University and read the article "Remembering Father", which moved the audience. Lin Taiyi died in the United States on July 5, 2003 at the age of 77.
Third, the youngest daughter Lin Xiangru.
Lin Xiangru, 1930 was born in Shanghai in July. Lin Xiangru is a university professor. She prefers science. Lin Xiangru is over 80 years old and lives in the United States. Like Lin Yutang, she likes traveling. 200 1 Lin Xiangru returned to Taiwan Province when the former residence of Lin Yutang in Taipei was opened. Talking about my father, Lin Xiangru said at the symposium at that time: "1974, my father's health became worse and worse, and I moved to Hong Kong with my mother. I often go shopping with them. One day, I suddenly asked him,' What's the point of living in this world?' He immediately said,' I think the purpose of life is to really enjoy life. "