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<P>A map of the mutual influence of Bloomsbury, the Crescent Moon Society, and modernism in English and Chinese culture</P><P>Lily Briscoe's Chinese Eyes traces the romance of Julian Bell, nephew of Virginia Woolf, and Ling Shuhua, a writer and painter Bell met while teaching at Wuhan University in China in 1935. Relying on a wide selection of previously unpublished writings, Patricia Laurence places Ling, often referred to as the Chinese Katherine Mansfield, squarely in the Bloomsbury constellation. In doing so, she counters East-West polarities and suggests forms of understanding to inaugurate a new kind of cultural criticism and literary description.</P><P>Laurence expands her examination of Bell and Ling's relationship into a study of parallel literary communities—Bloomsbury in England and the Crescent Moon group in China. Underscoring their reciprocal influences in the early part of the twentieth century, Laurence presents conversations among well-known British and Chinese writers, artists, and historians, including Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, G. L. Dickinson, Xu Zhimo, E. M. Forster, and Xiao Qian. In addition, Laurence's study includes rarely seen photographs of Julian Bel
Who reads Lily Briscoe s Chinese Eyes: Bloomsbury, Modernism, and China?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Laurence, Patricia
- Publisher
- University of South Carolina Press
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781283879170
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, History, Literary Criticism