Anne Witchard lectures in English, Linguistics and Cultural Studies at the University of Westminster. She is the author of Thomas Burke's Dark Chinoiserie: Limehouse Nights and the Queer Spell of Chinatown.
"Witchard's book makes a valuable contribution to both the
reconception/expansion of the Modernist literary canon as well as
to the ethnic diversification of London's cultural landscape,
which, we tend too often to forget, has since much earlier than
the
"A beautifully written book that combines literary biography with a
remarkably succinct account of British modernism and an evocative
portrait of interbellum London, as viewed through Chinese eyes.
Anne Witchard reminds us eloquently of the key role playe
"Sent by missionaries to teach Chinese in London, the fastidious
writer and intellectual Lao She arrived in 1928 in a city brimming
with prejudice where tourists visited Limehouse to see opium dens
and experience the Yellow Peril at first hand. Lao She's
"This perceptive and engaging book explores the London years and
writings of one of China's finest twentieth century novelists. Lao
She came to Britain to teach Chinese, but as Witchard ably shows,
the fiction and essays he wrote here teach us instead new
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