Lin Yutang

Lin Yutang (October 10, 1895 - March 26, 1976), a writer and scholar in the Republic of China, was born in Longxi, Fujian (now Banzai Town, Pinghe County). Her name was Hele, Yutang, and later changed to Yutang. He holds a bachelor's degree in English from St. John's University, a master's degree in comparative literature from Harvard University, and a doctorate in linguistics from the University of Leipzig in Germany. He once served as professor of the English Department of Peking University, dean of the School of Liberal Arts of Xiamen University, and the first president of Nanyang University. Finally settling in Hong Kong, he served as a research professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, director of Fine Arts and Literature at UNESCO, and vice president of PEN International. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature six times between 1940 and 1973.