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

Descript 1 online resource (xxii, 488 pages) : illustrations, map Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-443) and index. 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 Relying on a wide selection of previously unpublished writings, Patricia Laurence places Ling, often referred to as the Chinese Katherine Mansfield, squarely in the Bloomsbury constellation.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 In this volume Laurence links unpublished letters and documents, cultural artifacts, art, literature, and people in ways that provide illumination from a comparative cultural and aesthetic perspective.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 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. Note English. Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide Subject Xin yue she. Xin yue she (OCoLC)fst00705962 Bell, Julian (Schriftsteller) 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 (OCoLC)fst00834893 Chinese literature (OCoLC)fst00857595 Comparative literature -- Chinese and English (OCoLC)fst01766819 Comparative literature -- English and Chinese (OCoLC)fst01766818 English literature (OCoLC)fst00911989 English literature -- Chinese influences (OCoLC)fst00912021 Modernism (Literature) (OCoLC)fst01024455 China (OCoLC)fst01206073 Great Britain (OCoLC)fst01204623 Bloomsbury group. Engels. Letterkunde. Invloed. Chinees. 1900-1999 ISBN 9781611171761 (electronic bk.) 1611171768 (electronic bk.) 1283879174 9781283879170 9781611171488 1611171482 1570035059 9781570035050