LEADER 02743oam 2200469 450 001 9910792081303321 005 20170523091620.0 010 $a988-220-864-9 010 $a1-283-62963-1 010 $a9786613942081 010 $a988-220-880-0 035 $a(OCoLC)814551331 035 $a(MiFhGG)GVRLA09K 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000093382 100 $a20121023d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun|---uuuua 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLao She in London /$fAnne Witchard 205 $a1st edition. 210 $aHong Kong $cHong Kong University Press$d2012 210 1$aHong Kong :$cHong Kong University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (176 pages) 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 $aInfluence (Literary, artistic, etc.) 615 0$aInfluence (Literary, artistic, etc.) 676 $a895.135 700 $aWitchard$b Anne$01519955 801 0$bMiFhGG 801 1$bMiFhGG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792081303321 996 $aLao She in London$93758370 997 $aUNINA