Eunice Tietjens China Poems Republished

I’m very pleased to say that my little new year posting of some (now) rather obscure Eunice Tietjens poems from China, all written c.1915, has inspired Camphor Press to reissue Tietjens collected verse on China – Profiles from China: Sketches in Verse of People & Things Seen in the Interior. It’s a very nice and very cheap e-book. Tietjens’s verse is problematic in many ways in 2018 – lots of ‘othering’ and so on – but she was a genuine visitor to China – including Shanghai’s International Settlement and Hong Kong – so her work has the value of being part of the collective memory of foreigners in China in the first half of the twentieth century.