{"product_id":"lily-briscoes-chinese-eyes-bloomsbury-modernism-and-china-paperback","title":"Lily Briscoe's Chinese Eyes: Bloomsbury, Modernism, and China - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePatricia Laurence\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA map of the mutual influence of Bloomsbury, the Crescent Moon Society, and modernism in English and Chinese culture\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLily Briscoe's Chinese Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e 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 Relying on a wide selection of previously unpublished writings, Patricia Laurence places Ling, often referred to as the Chinese Katherine Mansfield, squarely in the Bloomsbury constellation.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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaurence 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile 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 In this volume Laurence links unpublished letters and documents, cultural artifacts, art, literature, and people in ways that provide illumination from a comparative cultural and aesthetic perspective.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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA map of the mutual influence of Bloomsbury, the Crescent Moon Society, and modernism in English and Chinese culture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatricia Laurence, \u003c\/b\u003e a professor of English at the City College of New York, has also taught at Vassar College and Columbia University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Reading of Silence: Virginia Woolf in the English Tradition, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLily Briscoe's Chinese Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e extends her study of silence into the East and draws upon documents she encountered and interviews she conducted during her travels to China and England. Laurence lives with her husband in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 536\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.19 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 09, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45911000645829,"sku":"9781611171488","price":60.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/AmmFADCe6N9781611171488.webp?v=1772060487","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/lily-briscoes-chinese-eyes-bloomsbury-modernism-and-china-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}