Title Lily Briscoe's Chinese eyes : Bloomsbury, modernism, and China / Patricia Laurence

Published Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 488 pages) : illustrations, map Contents Foreword / Jeffrey C. Kinkley -- Images on a scroll -- Maps of seeing -- The historical moment -- The formation of literary communities and conversations in China and England -- The uses of letters -- Empiricizing the theoretical -- Evolving modernisms -- Julian Bell performing "Englishness" -- The sentimental and the modern: Pei-ju-li (Bell Ju-lian) teaching in China -- The provincial turns political -- From fairy stories to letter quarrels: Julian Bell and Ling Shuhua -- Translating together: Julian Bell and Ling Shuhua -- Literary communities in England and China: politics and art -- Imagining other communities: the Crescent Moon Group -- Politics and art -- A parallel community: Bloomsbury -- East-West literary conversations: exploring civilization and subjectivity--G.L. Dickinson and Xu Zhimo -- Terms that fold and unfold meaning: civilization and subjectivity -- Xu Zhimo: "The great link with Bloomsbury" -- An English don in a Chinese cap: G.L. Dickinson -- The cultivation of the Romantic self: Xu Zhimo -- Feeling as a transgressive act: the narration of "self" in developing Chinese modernism -- Redefinitions of British "civilization": G.L. Dickinson -- The unwritten passage to China: E.M. Forster and Xiao Qian -- "The unpopular normal": E.M. Forster's expanding notions of transnational sexuality, culture, and the British novel -- Swallowing and being swallowed: poverty in China and the British novel -- British modernism through Chinese eyes: Katherine Mansfield, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf Summary "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 Relying on a wide selection of previously unpublished writings, Patricia Laurence places Ling, often referred to as the Chinese Katherine Mansfield, squarely in the Bloomsbury constellation.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." "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 Bell, Ling, and their associates as well as a reproduction of Ling's scroll commemorating moments in the exchange between Bloomsbury and the Crescent Moon group." "While many critics agree that modernism is a movement that crosses national boundaries, literary studies rarely reflect such a view. In this volume Laurence links unpublished letters and documents, cultural artifacts, art, literature, and people in ways that provide illumination from a comparative cultural and aesthetic perspective. In so doing she addresses the geographical and critical imbalances - and thus the architecture of modernist, postcolonial, Bloomsbury, and Asian studies - by placing China in an aesthetic matrix of a developing international modernism."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-443) and index Notes English Print version record SUBJECT Bell, Julian (Schriftsteller) swd Subject Xin yue she SUBJECT Xin yue she fast Subject English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Bloomsbury group. Chinese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Comparative literature -- English and Chinese Comparative literature -- Chinese and English English literature -- Chinese influences. Chinese literature -- English influences Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain Modernism (Literature) -- China LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. Bloomsbury group Chinese literature Comparative literature -- Chinese and English Comparative literature -- English and Chinese English literature English literature -- Chinese influences Modernism (Literature) Bloomsbury group. Engels. Letterkunde. Invloed. Chinees. China Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2003008688 ISBN 9781611171761 1611171768 1283879174 9781283879170

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