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| Thursday, October 16, 2008 7:06PM | | | | China Diary: September 7, 2008 | Tags: Chinese literature, Modernism, Republican China, Publishing in China
| | | September 7, 2008
In my first week in Shanghai, a busboy told me that he wanted to go to America. “Why,” I asked. “To get the human rights.”
I was invited to China in early September to give some talks about my book, Lily Briscoe’s Chinese Eyes: Bloomsbury, Modernism and China, recently translated into Chinese. I was initially amazed that there was an interest, expressed no less, by a government press, Shanghai Bookstore Publishing Company. China, now more engaged now in following international trends, purchased the rights to my book as many others these days from my US publisher The book is a study of the relationship between the literary and intellectual circles of Bloomsbury and the Crescent Moon group, an Anglophone literary... | | | | | |
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