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林语堂留美欧与著述行迹（1895年 — 1976年 · 光绪二十一年至 1976 年）
Lin Yutang: Between Two Worlds in Print (1895 CE – 1976 CE · Late Qing to Republic of China)
时代跨度：1895年 — 1976年 · 光绪二十一年至 1976 年
途经站点：共 10 站
起点 → 终点：漳州平和坂仔 → 香港
全线途经古今地名：漳州平和坂仔（今福建漳州平和） → 圣约翰大学（今上海） → 清华学校（今北京） → 上海放洋（今上海） → 北京大学（今北京） → 厦门大学（今福建厦门） → 上海（今上海） → 上海启程（今上海） → 台北阳明山（今台湾台北） → 香港（今香港）。
Route Stops: Banzai, Pinghe, Zhangzhou (Banzai, Pinghe, Fujian, China) → St. John’s University (Shanghai, China) → Tsinghua (Beijing, China) → Sailing from Shanghai (Shanghai, China) → Peking University (Beijing, China) → Xiamen University (Xiamen, Fujian, China) → Shanghai (Shanghai, China) → Sailing from Shanghai (Shanghai, China) → Yangmingshan, Taipei (Taipei, Taiwan, China) → Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China).
林语堂留美欧与著述行迹 · 逐站时空坐标、古今地名与史料诗词详解（10 站）
生于漳州平和坂仔镇牧师之家，父林至诚自学成才；山地溪流与西来教义、东土儒典并育其胸襟。
Born in the hill town of Banzai to a self-taught Christian pastor, he grew up with mountain rivers, the Gospels and the Confucian classics side by side.
以第二名毕业于教会中学，入上海圣约翰大学；初入神学而改文科，1916年以文学士毕业。
He entered St. John’s University, abandoning theology for letters, and graduated with a B.A. in 1916.
任清华大学英文教员，补修中国文化，于字典索引之痴愿自此萌生。
Teaching English at Tsinghua, he set about repairing his Chinese classical education — and conceived his lifelong dictionary obsession.
携新婚廖翠凤赴美，入哈佛大学比较文学系；1921年转赴德国，经耶纳入莱比锡大学，1923年以《古汉语语音学》得博士。
With his bride Lin Tsui-feng he sailed to Harvard for comparative literature, then Germany — Jena, then Leipzig, where his 1923 dissertation on Old Chinese phonology earned the doctorate.
回国任北京大学英文系教授兼主任，后任北京女师大教务长；1924年首译"幽默"一词，与语丝诸人相唱和。
He taught English at Peking University and the Women’s Normal College; in 1924 he coined the Chinese word for "humour" and wrote alongside the Yusi circle.
应陈嘉庚聘出任厦门大学文学院长，延鲁迅、孙伏园辈南来；北伐军兴，转任武汉国民政府外交部秘书。
Chen Jiageng’s new Xiamen University made him dean of letters; he brought Lu Xun south, then served the Wuhan government as foreign-ministry secretary.
在上海先后创办《论语》《人间世》《宇宙风》，倡"以自我为中心，以闲适为格调"之小品文；与鲁迅论战于笔端。
In Shanghai he founded Analects, Cosmos and This Human World, preaching the familiar essay "centered on the self, in a leisurely style" — and crossing pens with Lu Xun.
林语堂《论语》发刊旨趣（1932）：“两脚踏东西文化，一心评宇宙文章。”Lin Yutang, Analects fortnightly manifesto (1932): "Two feet treading the cultures of East and West, one heart appraising the writings of the universe."
《吾国与吾民》畅销欧美，举家移居纽约；此后以英文著《生活的艺术》《京华烟云》，风行世界，数获诺奖提名。
My Country and My People sold across the West; he moved to New York, where The Importance of Living and Moment in Peking made him world-famous and a repeated Nobel candidate.
此前1954年受新加坡侨界之聘筹建南洋大学任首任校长，旋因理念不合返美；1966年定居台北阳明山，受聘香港中文大学研究教授，编成《当代汉英词典》；1975年任国际笔会副会长。
After a stint as founding chancellor of Nanyang University (1954, cut short by disputes with the board), he settled on Yangmingshan in 1966, compiling his Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage and leading International PEN’s vice-presidency in 1975.
3月26日病逝香港玛丽医院；4月移灵台北，葬于阳明山故居后园，一湾山水长伴"幽默大师"。
He died at Hong Kong’s Queen Mary Hospital on 26 March 1976 and was laid to rest in the garden of his own Yangmingshan home.