Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. List of Plates viii
5. List of Figures ix
6. Introduction: ‘the lucid atmosphere of fine Cathay’ 1
7. Chapter 1 China and the Formation of the Modernist Aesthetic Ideal 18
8. Chapter 2 Shared Affinities: Katherine Mansfield, Ling Shuhua and Virginia Woolf 37
9. Chapter 3 Roger Fry, Chinese Art and The Burlington Magazine 53
10. Chapter 4 Chinese Artistic Influences on the Vorticists in London 72
11. Chapter 5 The Idea of the Chinese Garden and British Aesthetic Modernism 91
12. Chapter 6 ‘Beautiful, baleful absurdity’: Chinoiserie and Modernist Ballet 108
13. Chapter 7 Fashion, Chinoiserie and Modernism 133
14. Chapter 8 The Oriental and the Music Hall: Sound and Space in Thomas Burke’s Limehouse Chinatown 156
15. Chapter 9 Staging China, Excising the Chinese: Lady Precious Stream and the Darker Side of Chinoiserie 177
16. Chapter 10 Chinoiserie: An Unrequited Architectural Affair 199
17. Notes on Contributors 228
18. Index 231