Introducing Chinese Philosophy to Western Readers – Lin Yutang as a Cross-cultural Interpreter

The article reconstructs selected motifs in the philosophy of Lin Yutang, a twentieth-century Chinese thinker, translator and editor, especially popular in the West, undertaken, as it were, on the margins of his work to explain and popularize Chinese culture and philosophy in the West. Lin reflects on issues such as how to effectively and accurately explain a radically alien civilization to the Western-educated reader, in his or her own language, and who can appoint himself as the representative of Chinese culture at all? As a bilingual author, Lin very accurately shows the state of suspension between two cultures, characteristic of an intercultural interpreter who attempts to simultaneously move within two disproportionate, culturally determined conceptual schemes.

On Lin Yutang’s Translation Strategies of Geographical Terms in Six Chapters of a Floating Life

This paper takes Lin Yutang's translation work Six Chapters of a Floating Life as the research object, using the method of combining comparison and case analysis to explore Lin’s strategies in the translation of geographical terms. The results show that Lin Yutang adopted foreignization as the major strategy and domestication as the secondary strategy on the whole, and his translation methods are flexible and mature. Lin Yutang’s not only successfully explains the culture of Chinese geographical terms, but also provides high reference value for the English translation of geographical terms in other Chinese literary works.

Modelling “Self” through Writing – Lin Yutang as a Philosopher of the Art of Life

U radu rekonstruiram filozofijsku praksu Lina Yutanga i argumentiram da se njegova misao može tumačiti kao filozofija umjetnosti života. Ističem da je bit Linove filozofijske prakse umjetnost pisanja. Slično drugim filozofima umjetnosti života, Lin je umjetnik i filozof ujedno. Dakle, on sam središnja je tema njegovih eseja. U svojoj performativnoj umjetnosti, Lin konstruira svoje »sebstvo« i oblikuje model filozofijskog života duboko ukorijenjenog u tradiciju kineske kulture dokolice. Model svakodnevnog života kako ga predlaže Lin je, stoga, mišljen da nadahne čitatelja.

Review and Prospects of Taiwanese Philosophy Scholarship in South Korea

This study examined how Taiwanese philosophy has been received and researched in South Korea since its start to the present day. It takes the form of a survey, classifying the articles about Taiwanese philosophy which were published in South Korea over the years from 1994 to 2018 by the theme. It selected nine philosophers whose influence was profound in Taiwanese philosophy and observed the currents in the scholarship on each philosopher. The names of the selected philosophers are: Fang Thomé H., Hu Shi, Huang Chun-chieh, Lin Yutang, Liu Shuxian (Liu Shu-hsien), Mou Zongsan, Tang Junyi (Tang Chun-I), Xu Fuguan, Yu Yingshi (Yu Ying-shih). Sixty-one related papers were summarized and reviewed, and each of them was classified by the publication date, author, language, publisher and keywords. The survey revealed the limitations in Asian philosophy scholarship with regard to Taiwanese philosophy in South Korea, in terms of both quantity and quality. The survey also suggested a possible solution to these limitations and directions for scholars in the future. The study thus serves as a foundation that can boost discussion and the balanced development of South Korean philosophy studies, as well as of Asian philosophy in general.