Lily Briscoe's Chinese eyes : bloomsbury, modernism, and China.

Lily Briscoe's Chinese Eyes traces the romance between 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 Relying on a wide selection of previously unpublished writings, Patricia Laurence places Ling, often...

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Main Author: Laurence, Patricia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 2013
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Historical Time Line
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • CHAPTER ONE: Julian Bell Performing "Englishness"
  • The Sentimental and the Modern: Pei Ju-Lian (Bell, Julian) 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
  • CHAPTER TWO: Literary Communities in England and China: Politics and Art
  • Imagining Other Communities: The Crescent Moon Group
  • Politics and Art
  • A Parallel Community: Bloomsbury
  • CHAPTER THREE: 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
  • Interrupted Modernism
  • CHAPTER FOUR: Chinese Landscapes through British Eyes
  • The Naturalist Landscape: Julian Bell
  • The Painter's Eye: Vanessa Bell and Ling Shuhua.
  • Constructing the "Narrow Bridge of Art": Virginia Woolf and Ling Shuhua
  • China on a Willow Pattern Plate: Charles Lamb, George Meredith, and Arthur Waley
  • Expanding "Englishness": Le Jardin Anglo-Chinois and the Kew Gardens Pagoda
  • CHAPTER FIVE: Developing Modernisms
  • Incorporating "Chinese" Eyes
  • Chinoiserie and the International Chinese Exhibition
  • "The Liquidation of Reference"
  • The Aesthetic Gaze
  • The Epistemology of Boundaries: Subject and Object
  • The Crisis in Representation: Aesthetic Reciprocity
  • Leaving Things Out: The Line
  • Flatness and Plasticity
  • The Literary Effect of Visual Aesthetics
  • Postscript
  • APPENDIX A: Index of Chinese and British Figures
  • APPENDIX B: Selection from Ling Shuhua's Story "Writing a Letter" with Julian Bell's Annotations
  • APPENDIX C: Table of Contents, Selections of Modernist Literature from Abroad, eds. Yuan Kejia, Dong Xengxun, Zheng Kelu, 1981
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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