Chronology Entry
Year
1935-1937
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Julian Bell ist Professor of English an der Wuhan-Universität. (Oct. 1935-Jan. 1937).
Julian Bell learned some Chinese, appreciated the langscapes and cities of China, and entered into the challenge of outdoors physical life as he did in China. He sailed the boat made for him in China across the beautiful lake near the Wohan campus, and enjoyed shooting in the wilds of Tibet. .
When Julian Bell introduces To the lighthouse by Virginia Woolf in English to his Chinese students, translations already exist in Chinese. In the 1930's, there are translations of A room of one's own and Flush, and Julian writes to Virginia Woolf that 'China's leading women writer, my Dean's wife [Ling Shuhua] with whom I'm platonically in love is a passionate admirer of your work'.
Julian Bell stayed in Wuhan with a whiff of scandal, having brought Bloomsbury to China in a mercurial affair with Ling Shuhua. Chen Yuan had forbidden him to write or see Shuhua after they were discovered. Julian took the risk of inviting her to join him in Beijing and then to wend their way down to Guangzhou for the Wester new year, January 1937.
Julian Bell learned some Chinese, appreciated the langscapes and cities of China, and entered into the challenge of outdoors physical life as he did in China. He sailed the boat made for him in China across the beautiful lake near the Wohan campus, and enjoyed shooting in the wilds of Tibet. .
When Julian Bell introduces To the lighthouse by Virginia Woolf in English to his Chinese students, translations already exist in Chinese. In the 1930's, there are translations of A room of one's own and Flush, and Julian writes to Virginia Woolf that 'China's leading women writer, my Dean's wife [Ling Shuhua] with whom I'm platonically in love is a passionate admirer of your work'.
Julian Bell stayed in Wuhan with a whiff of scandal, having brought Bloomsbury to China in a mercurial affair with Ling Shuhua. Chen Yuan had forbidden him to write or see Shuhua after they were discovered. Julian took the risk of inviting her to join him in Beijing and then to wend their way down to Guangzhou for the Wester new year, January 1937.
Mentioned People (1)
Bell, Julian
(London 1908-1937 Brunete bei Madrid) : Maler, Dichter, Kunstkritiker, Neffe von Virginia Woolf
Subjects
Literature : Occident : Great Britain
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Social History : Universites and Colleges
Documents (2)
| # | Year | Bibliographical Data | Type / Abbreviation | Linked Data |
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| 1 | 1997 |
Laurence, Patricia. The China letters : Julian Bell, Vanessa Bell, and Ling Shu Hua. In : South Carolina review ; Spring (1997). [Betr. auch Virginia Woolf]. http://www.clemson.edu/cedp/cudp/scr/articles/scr_29-1_laurence.pdf. |
Publication / Woolf8 | |
| 2 | 2003 | Laurence, Patricia. Lily Briscoe's Chinese eyes : Bloomsbury, modernism, and China. (Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, 2003). [Betr. Virginia Woolf, Ling Shuhua, Julian Bell]. S. 9, 63, 78. | Publication / Woolf3 |
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