Though China’s liberals have been airbrushed from China’s modern history, in fact from the 1920s to the 1940s, a group of several hundred men and women, many educated in America, became the conscience of their nation in opposing the tyrannical ideologies of the Communists and the Kuomintang, resisting Japanese imperialism, and advocating democracy. Some of China’s greatest writers and thinkers embraced the promise of American democracy. One of them was Lin Yutang.
