Secondly, the political field, economic field and the literary field provided Lin withan advantageous environment. Therefore, works about China appropriately meet themarkets. To be specific, from the perspective of the political field, China and Americawere glorious Allies and American greatly changed their attitude to this mysteriouseastern country that they once had a bias against. Therefore, they were willing to acceptthe books about China to have a better understanding of this country. From theperspective of economic field, American people were depressed because of the lingereffect of the great depression. Therefore, this book provided these depressed men with aspiritual home where they can escape from the cruel reality. From the perspective of theliterary field, the new poetry movement and new humanism needed some new bloodand Lin’s spiritual literature and Chinese Taoist and Chungtsu’s philosophical ideas wasjust the American literature were short of. Therefore, the three important fields provided a favorable environment for the dissemination of The Importance of Living.
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