Written by Tessa Thorniley The publication of the literary journal, The Penguin New Writing (TPNW), spanned a traumatic period of history including WWII and its aftermath, and in China, the Second Sino-Japanese War. It was a period when representations of China…
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Written by Anne Witchard The artist and writer Chiang Yee is best remembered for his Silent Traveller books, a series of illustrated travelogues that presented Anglophone readers with a Chinese perspective on familiar destinations. Informative, thought provoking and humorous, they…
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Written by Amy Jane Barnes To China’s communist leader Chairman Mao Zedong (1893-1976), art and design was integral to revolution. Following Lenin’s lead, he argued that there was ‘no such thing as art for art’s sake’ – all art was…
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Written by Flair Donglai Shi As a Taiwanese director based in London, Jenny Lu (Lu Jinming) decided to make her first feature-length film about a group of sex workers in an illegal massage parlour on the outskirts of the city…
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Written by Shih-Wen Sue Chen Children’s writers mediated a complex textual discourse on China for young readers in the Victorian and Edwardian period, trying to make ‘knowledge’ of ‘the Celestial Kingdom’ accessible to the British public after China was ‘opened up’ to…
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Written by Editor Our fourth issue looks at representations of China in Britain. We asked our contributors to reflect on written and visual representations of China to British audiences across different points in time, and to consider the kinds of discourses…
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