"These 'Sketches' ... have for the most part appeared at irregular intervals in the Shanghai mercury."--Introduction (signed J.D. Clark)

This volume examines the ways in which an intellectual vogue for a mythic China was a constituent element of British modernism.

The growth of Shanghai in the late nineteenth century gave rise to an exciting new art world in which a flourishing market in popular art became a highly visibl

This book explores China’s encounter with architecture and modernity in the tumultuous epoch before Communism – an encounter that was mediated not by a sing