Lily Briscoes Chinese Eyes Bloomsbury Modernism And China Patricia Laurence by Patricia Laurence B00AMR8P2Q instant download after payment.

Modernism seems more than ever a genuinely international movement in this intriguing and path-breaking book. Examining the Bloomsbury and Crescent Moon groups at home and abroad, in England and China, Patricia Laurence asks us to see Chinese arts through the lens of British modernism, and the modern British legacy through contemporary Chinese eyes. We vicariously enter an educated and privileged circle that wrote, painted, and traveled. In China, these visionary avocations tended to merge and support each other. What was new in the twentieth century was the public embodiment of such pastimes in women, including Ling Shuhua—writer, artist, and finally, expatriate. Meantime, Bloomsbury “performed” the ancient Chinese literati’s “amateur ideal.” In Bloomsbury, women were not just present but preeminent.