林语堂,中国现代著名作家、学者、翻译家、语言学家,曾任北大英文系主任,于1940年和1950年先后两度获得诺贝尔文学奖提名。代表作有小说《京华烟云》等。他曾在巴西的一个集会上说过一个轰动世界的笑话,他说:“世界大同的理想生活,就是住在英国的乡村,屋子里安装有美国的水电煤气管子,有个中国厨子,有个日本太太……” Lin Yutang, a famous modern Chinese writer, scholar, translator and linguist, served as director of Peking University Department of English. In 1940 and 1950, he successively won the Nobel Prize for literature. Representatives have a novel “Beijing Hua Yun” and so on. He once said at a rally in Brazil that a world-famous joke he said: “The ideal life in the world is living in a British village with American plumbing and gas pipes, a Chinese cooker and A Japanese wife ... ”