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Lao She's life and work have been the subject of volumes of critique, analysis and study. However, the four years the aspiring writer spent in London between 1924 and 1929 have largely been overlooked. This book reveals Lao She's encounter with literature in England, from Dickens to Conrad, high modernism and Joyce. Lao She arrived from his native Peking to the whirl of London's West End scene - Bloomsberries, Vorticists, avant-gardists of every stripe, Ezra Pound and the cabaret at the Cave of the Golden Calf, risqué flappers, the tabloid sensation of England's 'most infamous Chinaman', Brilliant Chang and Anna May Wong's scandalous film Piccadilly (1918). Simultaneously Lao She spent time in London's notorious and much sensationalised Chinatown in Limehouse. Out of these experiences came his great novel of London Chinese life and tribulations - Ma & Son: Two Chinese in London. This book examines how Lao She's London years affected his writing and ultimately the course of Chinese literary modernism.
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