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Publicado por Tianjin People's Publishing House, 2016
ISBN 10: 7201099345ISBN 13: 9787201099347
Librería: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.
Condición: Fine. Number of books: 1.
Publicado por London: The Hogarth Press, 1953, 1953
Librería: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Reino Unido
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First edition, first impression, of this memoir of life in China written with the encouragement of Virginia Woolf. The author began corresponding with her in the late 1930s and sent her drafts of Ancient Melodies. Woolf was full of praise, urging Ling to write "as close to the Chinese both in style and in meaning as you can" (p. 8). Ling Shuhua (1904-1990), an artist and accomplished short story writer who has been called "China's Katherine Mansfield", met Julian Bell in 1935 while he was teaching English in China. It was through this connection that she first made contact with Woolf. Ling and Bell's romantic relationship is fictionalized in Hong Ying's banned novel K: The Art of Love (1999), later reworked as The English Lover (2003). In her introduction, Vita Sackville-West describes the correspondence between Woolf and Ling, praising the latter as "blessed, or cursed, according to the way you look at it, with the soul and eye of an artist and a poet. [Ling] seems, living in London now, to bring with her the flavour of a forgotten world in which the desire for the good life of peaceable contemplation and exquisite thoughts was axiomatic" (p. 9). Sackville-West concludes with a quotation from a poem by Bai Juyi, as translated by Arthur Waley. Waley's translation of The Tale of Genji (1925-1926) "was responsible for changing substantially the views of Virginia Woolf toward oriental literature" (Henig, p. 76). Several years later, Woolf acknowledged her literary debts to Waley in the preface to Orlando (1928). Suzanne Henig, "The Bloomsbury Group and Non-Western Literature", Journal of South Asian Literature, vol. 10, no. 1, 1974. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With pictorial dust jacket. With 7 illustrations in text after pen-and-ink drawings by the author. With the bookplate of Carmen Blomfield, perhaps the minor Australian poet (1921-2018), on the half-title. Spine only lightly sunned with slight lean, extremities rubbed, text clean; jacket with losses at spine ends and folds, old inexpert brown paper repairs on verso, unclipped: a very good copy in like jacket.