Lao She: A Chinese Writer in Modernist London – Anne Witchard – Uni of Westminster – 7 December

Next year as part of the launch of the Royal Asiatic Society Shanghai’s China Monographs book series (in conjunction with Hong Kong University Press and with me as series editor) one book I’ll be publishing is Lao She, London and China’s Literary Revolution by Dr. Anne Witchard, an expert on modernism, British literature and Chinoiserie in British culture. The book will be out next summer/early autumn but Anne is presenting the subject of Lao She’s years in London in the 1920s, and his exposure to English literature, British Modernism, bohemian London and the old Limehouse Chinatown, at the University of Westminster’s Contemporary China Centre.

Well worth getting along if you’re in London – details below – a lot more to follow on the book as we get closer to publication date.

More on the RAS Shanghai-HKUP China Monograph series here