Lin Yutang used three different auditory narrative modes to depict the urban space of the imperial capital Beijing in his novel Moment in Peking. First, using a single-listening mode, he described the morning bells, dusk drums, singing and sound of Xiao from the boatman on rivers or lakes, and the peddling voices of the vendors. Second, by the joint-listening mode, he displayed the sounds and auditory experience in the courtyards and churches. Also, he presented the tension between the suicide of Feng Hongyu and his own auditory narration through an eavesdropping mode. At the same time, the narrative modes of single-listening and joint listening existed in the novel due to the auditory space boundary and the ambiguity of the listener’s identity, and the particularity of the auditory spatial location, such as the battlefield. The variety of Lin Yutang’s auditory narrative modes was closely related to his strong interest in auditory perception and his sensitivity to the sounds from his childhood.