02743oam 2200469 450 991079208130332120170523091620.0988-220-864-91-283-62963-19786613942081988-220-880-0(OCoLC)814551331(MiFhGG)GVRLA09K(EXLCZ)99256000000009338220121023d2013 uy 0engurun|---uuuuatxtccrLao She in London /Anne Witchard1st edition.Hong Kong Hong Kong University Press2012Hong Kong :Hong Kong University Press,2013.1 online resource (176 pages)China monographs from the Royal Asiatic Society ShanghaiDescription based upon print version of record.988-8139-60-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index"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 risque 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.RAS China in Shanghai.Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)895.135Witchard Anne1519955MiFhGGMiFhGGBOOK9910792081303321Lao She in London3758370UNINA