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 Relying on a wide selection of previously unpublished writings, Patricia Laurence places Ling, often...
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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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- B
- C
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- E
- F
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- I
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- K
- L
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- N
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- Q
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