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Lin Yutang

Died in 1976

Lin Yutang was born on 10 October 1895 in Fujian, the son of a pastor. After St. John's University in Shanghai, he studied at Harvard, then defended a doctorate in philology at Leipzig. In 1932 he founded the Lunyu banyuekan, a journal of humour and satire; as early as 1924 he had coined the word youmo to render the English humour. He settled in New York in 1936 according to Britannica, and worked for a long time on a Chinese typewriter. Nominated several times for the Nobel Prize in Literature, he died in Hong Kong on 26 March 1976.

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