tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7670543499274741427.post1110357182507418139..comments2024-03-26T17:54:54.592+01:00Comments on Speculiction...: Review of The Importance of Understanding by Lin YutangUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7670543499274741427.post-13644196666282988312019-01-29T20:55:37.228+01:002019-01-29T20:55:37.228+01:00This book changed my thinking when I first read it...This book changed my thinking when I first read it as an 18-year-old when I had just completed my secondary school education and was out looking for a job in Singapore in 1970. Those days, almost everyone in this overcrowded tiny island of Chinese immigrants was dirt poor and life was really miserable because of lack of job. The book have me an understanding of the importance of patience, endurance and social compassion.<br />Hsiaoshuanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11064491106175619948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7670543499274741427.post-32486472423564901082017-01-10T23:14:45.141+01:002017-01-10T23:14:45.141+01:00Thanks for your sincere words - they ring so true....Thanks for your sincere words - they ring so true. Perhaps I should just erase my review and substitute your words? :) I couldn't agree more. Jessehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07796098208589965362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7670543499274741427.post-12670297884522626112017-01-10T13:07:38.707+01:002017-01-10T13:07:38.707+01:00Dear Reader, I have this book. I have had this boo...Dear Reader, I have this book. I have had this book for 30 years. I read it often. BUT I WILL NEVER FINISH THIS BOOK! I counsel those who have buy this book to do the same. The day you finish it is the day your enchantment is diminished just one half-catty. The sheer pleasure of returning to this book-of-wonders to make new discoveries in the richly-laden fields of Chinese literature is priceless. I always want to keep alive the novelty of curiosity and wonder. Lin must have been a beautiful person - his judicious selections of Eastern literature expressed through Western words have a delicacy of unrivalled sensibility, IMHO. It introduces the reader to out-of-the-way characters like Su Tung Po, and poems like the Pipa Hang (Page 315)which leave an indelible impression on one's mind and soul. And always the charm, courtesy, and delicacy of Eastern manners pervades every selection from every ancient dynasty. His book is a timeless smorgasbord of bygone delectables presented on one table between two covers - to mix a metaphor. READER, BUY THIS BOOK! It will transport you back to a past world of charm and manners captured and expressed in beautiful words by a cultured Eastern-Western master, a charm which may never-again appear in this old world. Mozz from Oz.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05551626954088116600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7670543499274741427.post-44472509430681210682017-01-10T13:07:06.179+01:002017-01-10T13:07:06.179+01:00Dear Reader, I have this book. I have had this boo...Dear Reader, I have this book. I have had this book for 30 years. I read it often. BUT I WILL NEVER FINISH THIS BOOK! I counsel those who have buy this book to do the same. The day you finish it is the day your enchantment is diminished just one half-catty. The sheer pleasure of returning to this book-of-wonders to make new discoveries in the richly-laden fields of Chinese literature is priceless. I always want to keep alive the novelty of curiosity and wonder. Lin must have been a beautiful person - his judicious selections of Eastern literature expressed through Western words have a delicacy of unrivalled sensibility, IMHO. It introduces the reader to out-of-the-way characters like Su Tung Po, and poems like the Pipa Hang (Page 315)which leave an indelible impression on one's mind and soul. And always the charm, courtesy, and delicacy of Eastern manners pervades every selection from every ancient dynasty. His book is a timeless smorgasbord of bygone delectables presented on one table between two covers - to mix a metaphor. READER, BUY THIS BOOK! It will transport you back to a past world of charm and manners captured and expressed in beautiful words by a cultured Eastern-Western master, a charm which may never-again appear in this old world. Mozz from Oz.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05551626954088116600noreply@blogger.com