Abstract: With the consciousness of Chinese cultural identity, LIN Yu-tang integrated the advantages of Chinese and Western cultures, reexamined Chinese language, literature and culture and attempted to recreate them when he studied in St. John's University. Although LIN's views on Chinese language and literature were seemingly "contradictory" at that time, he was making great efforts to find an ideal balance between Western experiences and national culture, and between cosmopolitanism and nationalism. This practice was not only the result of the policy of "integrating Chinese and Western cultures" in St. John University under the leadership of President Rev. Francis Lister Hawks Pott, but also an important part of campus culture. More importantly, it was an internal source of LIN's language and literature practices in and after the May 4^th period.

Key words: LIN Yu-tang, St.John's University, views on language and literature