FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
PREFACE
PART ONE BASES
PROLOGUE
Chapter One THE CHINESE PEOPLE
Ⅰ.NORTH AND SOUTH
Ⅱ.DEGENERATION
Ⅲ.INFUSION OF NEW BLOOD
Ⅳ.CULTURAL STABILITY
Ⅴ.RACIAL YOUTH
Chapter Two THE CHINESE CHARACTER
Ⅰ.MELLOWNESS
Ⅱ.PATIENCE
Ⅲ.INDIFFERENCE
Ⅳ.OLD ROGUERY
Ⅴ.PACIFISM
Ⅵ.CONTENTMENT
Ⅶ.HUMOR
Ⅷ.CONSERVATISM
Chapter Three THE CHINESE MIND
Ⅰ.INTELLIGENCE
Ⅱ.FEMININITY
Ⅲ.LACK OF SCIENCE
Ⅳ.LOGIC
Ⅴ.INTUITION
Ⅵ.IMAGINATION
Chapter Four IDEALS OF LIFE
Ⅰ.CHINESE HUMANISM
Ⅱ.RELIGION
Ⅲ.THE DOCTRINE OF THE GOLDEN MEAN
Ⅳ.TAOISM
Ⅴ.BUDDHISM
PART TWO LIFE
Chapter FIVe WOMAN'S LIFE
Ⅰ.THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN
Ⅱ.HOME AND MARRIAGE
Ⅲ.IDEAL OF WOMANHOOD
Ⅳ.EDUCATION OF OUR DAUGHTERS
Ⅴ.LOVE AND COURTSHIP
Ⅵ.THE COURTESAN AND CONCUBINAGE
Ⅶ.FOOTBINDING
Ⅷ.EMANCIPATION
Chapter Six SOCIAL AND POLITICAL LIFE
Ⅰ.ABSENCE OF THE SOCIAL MIND
Ⅱ.THE FAMILY SYSTEM
Ⅲ.NEPOTISM, CORRUPTION AND MANNERS
Ⅳ.PRⅣILEGE AND EQUALITY
Ⅴ.SOCIAL CLASSES
Ⅵ.THE MALE TRIAD
Ⅶ.THE FEMALE TRIAD
Ⅷ.THEVILLAGE SYSTEM
Ⅸ."GOVERNMENT BY GENTLEMEN"
Chapter SeVen LITERARY LIFE
Ⅰ.A DISTINCTION
Ⅱ.LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT
Ⅲ.SCHOLARSHIP
Ⅳ.THE COLLEGE
Ⅴ.PROSE
Ⅵ.LITERATURE AND POLITICS
Ⅶ.LITERARY REVOLUTION
Ⅷ.POETRY
Ⅸ.DRAMA
X.THE NOVEL
ⅪINFLUENCE OF WESTERN LITERATURE
Chapter Eight THE ARTISTIC LIFE
I.THE ARTIST
II.CHINESE CALLIGRAPHY
Ⅲ.PAINTING
IV.ARCHITECTURE
Chapter Nine THE ART OF LIVING
I.THE PLEASURES OF LIFE
II.HOUSE AND GARDEN
ⅢI.EATING AND DRINKING
IV.THE END OF LIFE
THE SPELLING AND PRONUNCIATION OF
CHINESE NAMES
WADE-GILES TO PINYIN CONVERTION TABLE
WORKS IN ENGLISH BY LIN YUTANG
South in Kwangtung, one meets again a different people, where racialvigor is again in evidence, where people eat like men and work like men,enterprising, carefree, spendthrift, pugnacious, adventurous, progressive and quick-tempered, where beneath the Chinese culture a snake-eating aborigines tradition persists, revealing a strong admixture of the blood of the ancient eh inhabitants of southern China. North and south of Hankow, in the middleof China, the loud-swearing and intrigue-loving Hupeh people exist, who are compared by the people of other provinces to "nine-headed birds in heaven"because they never say die, and who think pepper not hot enough to eat until they have fried it in oil; while the Hunan people, noted for their soldiery and their dogged persistence, offer a pleasanter variety of these descendants of the ancient Ch'u warriors.
Movements of trade and the imperial rule of sending scholars to official posts outside their native provinces have brought about some mixture of the peoples and have smoothed out these provincial differences, but as a whole they continue to exist. For the significant fact remains that the northerner is essentially a conqueror and the southerner is essentially a trader,and that of all the imperial brigands who have founded Chinese dynasties,none have come from south of the Yangtse. The tradition developed that norice-eating southerners could mount the dragon throne, and only noodle-eating northerners could.
