Lily Briscoe's Chinese Eyes by Laurence Patricia;

Author:Laurence, Patricia;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2003-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Invitations to Ling Shuhua gallery openings. By permission of the Dartington Hall Trust Archive, Totnes, England

What is important about Ling Shuhua’s relationship with Vanessa Bell as well as Julian and Virginia Woolf is that they provided her with another literary, cultural, and sexual standard to place beside her own. She was emboldened to write an autobiography in English when few women did in China. Even in England, as Virginia Woolf notes, “It is less than two hundred years since people took an interest in themselves; Boswell was almost the first writer who thought that a man’s life was worth writing a book about” (The Moment, 129). The cultural contact was important. As Hu Shi, one of the thinkers behind the May Fourth movement, stated:

Contact with strange civilizations brings new standards of value with which the native culture is re-examined and re-evaluated, and conscious reformation and regeneration are the natural outcome of such transvaluation of values. (Renaissance, 46)

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