Oriental Modern is a cross-cultural study of transnational modernity as exemplified in the bilingual works of Lin Yutang (1895-1976). Banned for over three decades in China for political reasons, Lin Yutang is now being simultaneously reclaimed in both China and America as one of the most important modern Chinese writers and as a pioneering Chinese American diasporic writer. This study engages these two interconnected cultural spaces and offers a critical examination of Lin"s writing/translating works against a transnational Chinese American milieu. (Ph.D. dissertation,University of California, Berkeley, 1996; revised with new preface, bibliography, and index)