LEADER 03173nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910465504803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a988-220-864-9 010 $a1-283-62963-1 010 $a9786613942081 010 $a988-220-880-0 035 $a(CKB)2560000000093382 035 $a(EBL)1019460 035 $a(OCoLC)811504214 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000738098 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11410782 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000738098 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10788525 035 $a(PQKB)10193811 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000107555 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1019460 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse18842 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1019460 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10597159 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL394208 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000093382 100 $a20120921d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLao She in London$b[electronic resource] /$fAnne Witchard 210 $aHong Kong $cHong Kong University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (187 p.) 225 0 $aChina monographs from the Royal Asiatic Society Shanghai 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a988-8139-60-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index 330 3 $a"London is blacker than lacquer." Lao She remains revered as one of China great modern writers. His life and work have been the subject of volumes of critique, analysis and study. However, the four years the young aspiring writer spent in London between 1924 and 1929 have largely been overlooked. Anne Witchard, a specialist in the modernist milieu of London between the wars, reveals Lao She's encounter with British high modernism and literature from Dickens to Conrad to Joyce. Lao She arrived from his native Peking to the whirl of London's West End scene - Bloomsburyites, Vorticists, avant-gardists of every stripe, Ezra Pound and the cabaret at the Cave of the Golden Calf. Immersed in the West End 1920s world of risque flappers, the tabloid sensation of England's "most infamous Chinaman Brilliant Chang" and Anna May Wong's scandalous film Piccadilly, simultaneously Lao She spent time in the notorious and much sensationalised East End Chinatown of Limehouse. Out of his experiences came his great novel of London Chinese life and tribulations - Ma & Son: Two Chinese in London. However, as Witchard reveals, Lao She's London years affected his writing and ultimately the course of Chinese modernism in far more profound ways. 410 0$aRAS China in Shanghai. 606 $aInfluence (Literary, artistic, etc.) 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aInfluence (Literary, artistic, etc.) 676 $a895.135 700 $aWitchard$b Anne$01045410 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465504803321 996 $aLao She in London$92471668 997 $aUNINA