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Author Witchard, Anne Veronica.

Title Lao She in London / Anne Witchard
Published Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, HKU, 2012
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (187 pages)
Series RAS China in Shanghai
RAS China in Shanghai series of China Monographs.
Contents Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary "'London is blacker than lacquer'. Lao She remains revered as one of China great modern writers. His life and work have been the subject of volumes of critique, analysis and study. However, the four years the young aspiring writer spent in London between 1924 and 1929 have largely been overlooked. Anne Witchard, a specialist in the modernist milieu of London between the wars, reveals Lao She's encounter with British high modernism and literature from Dickens to Conrad to Joyce. Lao She arrived from his native Peking to the whirl of London's West End scene - Bloomsburyites, Vorticists, avant-gardists of every stripe, Ezra Pound and the cabaret at the Cave of the Golden Calf. Immersed in the West End 1920s world of risqué flappers, the tabloid sensation of England's 'most infamous Chinaman Brilliant Chang' and Anna May Wong's scandalous film Piccadilly, simultaneously Lao She spent time in the notorious and much sensationalised East End Chinatown of Limehouse. Out of his experiences came his great novel of London Chinese life and tribulations - Ma & Son: Two Chinese in London. However, as Witchard reveals, Lao She's London years affected his writing and ultimately the course of Chinese modernism in far more profound ways."--Project Muse
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-166) and index
Notes English
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Subject Lao, She, 1899-1966 -- Homes and haunts -- England -- London
Lao, She, 1899-1966 -- Knowledge -- English literature
Lao, She, 1899-1966 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Lao, She, 1899-1966 fast
Subject Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
English literature
Homes
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
England -- London
Genre/Form Electronic book
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2014373555
ISBN 9789882208803
9882208800
9882208649
9789882208643
9786613942081
6613942081