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With love and irony, illustrated by Kurt Wiese

Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (xi, 291 pages
Note
  • At head of title: Lin Yutang
  • Essays
Contents
  • What I want
  • What I have not done
  • Crying at the movies
  • Mickey Mouse
  • Buying birds
  • My library
  • Confessions of a vegetarian
  • On being naked
  • How I moved into a flat
  • How I celebrated New Year's Eve
  • The English and the Chinese
  • Ah Fong, my houseboy
  • Convictions
  • Do bedbugs exist in China?
  • Funeral notices
  • I committed a murder
  • A trip to Anhwei
  • Spring in my garden
  • Freedom of speech
  • The calisthenic value of kowtowing
  • Confucius singing in the rain
  • The Americans
  • King George's prayer
  • The coolie myth
  • Beggars
  • A bus trip
  • Let's liquidate the moon
  • In memoriam of the dog-meat general
  • The lost Mandarin
  • I like to talk with women
  • Should women rule the world?
  • In defense of Chinese girls
  • What I like about America
  • In defense of gold diggers
  • Sex imagery in the Chinese language
  • The monks of Hangchow
  • The monks of Tienmu
  • A talk with Bernard Shaw
  • A suggestion for summer reading
  • The 500th anniversary of printing
  • Basic English and pidgin
  • The donkey that paid its debt
  • The future of China
  • The Chinese and the Japanese
  • The real threat: not bombs, but ideas
  • Hirota and the child
  • "Oh, break not my willow trees!"
  • Captive Peking
  • A hymn to Shanghai
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Instance
Label
With love and irony
Title
With love and irony
Statement of responsibility
illustrated by Kurt Wiese
Creator
Contributor
Illustrator
Subject
Language
eng
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1895-1976
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Lin, Yutang
Dewey number
  • 915.1
  • 824.91
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
LC call number
  • PR6023.I56
  • PL2781.N2
LC item number
  • W5
  • W58
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
dictionaries
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
1887-1974
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
Wiese, Kurt
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Chinese essays
  • Chinese wit and humor
Label
With love and irony, illustrated by Kurt Wiese
Link
Instantiates
Publication
Note
  • At head of title: Lin Yutang
  • Essays
Contents
  • What I want
  • What I have not done
  • Crying at the movies
  • Mickey Mouse
  • Buying birds
  • My library
  • Confessions of a vegetarian
  • On being naked
  • How I moved into a flat
  • How I celebrated New Year's Eve
  • The English and the Chinese
  • Ah Fong, my houseboy
  • Convictions
  • Do bedbugs exist in China?
  • Funeral notices
  • I committed a murder
  • A trip to Anhwei
  • Spring in my garden
  • Freedom of speech
  • The calisthenic value of kowtowing
  • Confucius singing in the rain
  • The Americans
  • King George's prayer
  • The coolie myth
  • Beggars
  • A bus trip
  • Let's liquidate the moon
  • In memoriam of the dog-meat general
  • The lost Mandarin
  • I like to talk with women
  • Should women rule the world?
  • In defense of Chinese girls
  • What I like about America
  • In defense of gold diggers
  • Sex imagery in the Chinese language
  • The monks of Hangchow
  • The monks of Tienmu
  • A talk with Bernard Shaw
  • A suggestion for summer reading
  • The 500th anniversary of printing
  • Basic English and pidgin
  • The donkey that paid its debt
  • The future of China
  • The Chinese and the Japanese
  • The real threat: not bombs, but ideas
  • Hirota and the child
  • "Oh, break not my willow trees!"
  • Captive Peking
  • A hymn to Shanghai
Extent
1 online resource (xi, 291 pages
Form of item
online
Other physical details
illustrations)
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1036923759
Label
With love and irony, illustrated by Kurt Wiese
Link
Publication
Note
  • At head of title: Lin Yutang
  • Essays
Contents
  • What I want
  • What I have not done
  • Crying at the movies
  • Mickey Mouse
  • Buying birds
  • My library
  • Confessions of a vegetarian
  • On being naked
  • How I moved into a flat
  • How I celebrated New Year's Eve
  • The English and the Chinese
  • Ah Fong, my houseboy
  • Convictions
  • Do bedbugs exist in China?
  • Funeral notices
  • I committed a murder
  • A trip to Anhwei
  • Spring in my garden
  • Freedom of speech
  • The calisthenic value of kowtowing
  • Confucius singing in the rain
  • The Americans
  • King George's prayer
  • The coolie myth
  • Beggars
  • A bus trip
  • Let's liquidate the moon
  • In memoriam of the dog-meat general
  • The lost Mandarin
  • I like to talk with women
  • Should women rule the world?
  • In defense of Chinese girls
  • What I like about America
  • In defense of gold diggers
  • Sex imagery in the Chinese language
  • The monks of Hangchow
  • The monks of Tienmu
  • A talk with Bernard Shaw
  • A suggestion for summer reading
  • The 500th anniversary of printing
  • Basic English and pidgin
  • The donkey that paid its debt
  • The future of China
  • The Chinese and the Japanese
  • The real threat: not bombs, but ideas
  • Hirota and the child
  • "Oh, break not my willow trees!"
  • Captive Peking
  • A hymn to Shanghai
Extent
1 online resource (xi, 291 pages
Form of item
online
Other physical details
illustrations)
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1036923759

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