China Rhyming

Stella Benson (1892-1933), feminist, novelist, poet, travel writer and China sojourner who went to China with her husband James (Shaemas) O’Gorman Anderson who worked with the Imperial Chinese ...

http://www.chinarhyming.com/2024/04/27/some-images-of-stella-benson/

The following short poem by Empson (1906-1984) is from his 1940 collection, The Gathering Storm (London: Faber & Faber). The poems in the collection were written between Empson’s time in Japan ...

http://www.chinarhyming.com/2024/04/26/manchouli-william-empsons-china-poems-1/

Excellent to see Bloomsbury Asian Arguments Tenth Anniversary edition of Leta Hong Fincher’s Leftover Women on this great list from Amy Hawkins in The Guardian…. (some other wise choices too)...

http://www.chinarhyming.com/2024/04/25/the-guardians-five-of-the-best-books-to-understand-modern-china/

Sketching Hong Kong — The Drawings of Eddie Chau (from Hong Kong University Press), edited by Phoebe Wong. A gifted watercolourist and educator, Eddie Chau’s skill in depicting the lush natur...

http://www.chinarhyming.com/2024/04/25/sketching-hong-kong-the-drawings-of-eddie-chau/

 The ex-libris of historian, bibliophile & philanthropist José Maria “Jack” Braga, whose family settled in Macao in 1712 and moved to Hong Kong in 1842. After a stint working for HSBC in Ho...

http://www.chinarhyming.com/2024/04/24/jack-bragas-ex-libris/

Who was the first emperor of China? Why was he the ‘first’? What was ‘China’ under the Qin? Ep1 The Invention of China in BBC Radio 4 with Misha Glenny with Linda Jaivin, Frances Wood, St...

http://www.chinarhyming.com/2024/04/23/bbc-radio-4s-the-invention-of-china-ep1-the-first-emperor/

Japanese Modernist Painters in Seattle, 1910-1970 Thursday 25 April 2024 6:00pm – 7:00pm Daiwa Foundation Japan House – 13/14 Cornwall Terrace (Outer Circle) – London NW1 4QP In this talk,...

http://www.chinarhyming.com/2024/04/23/japanese-modernist-painters-in-seattle-1910-1970-25-4-24-daiwa-foundation-london/

Patuá is a Portuguese-Asian Creole language once quite widely spoken in Macao. It has largely fallen out of use and fluent speakers now number perhaps only dozens in Macao and possibly a hundred...

http://www.chinarhyming.com/2024/04/22/lets-learn-patua/

Book #49 in the Sinica Ultimate China Bookshelf is now up on the Sinica Substack… Jung Chang’s Wild Swans (1991). A massive international best-seller detailing three generations of Chinese wo...

http://www.chinarhyming.com/2024/04/21/the-sinica-ultimate-china-bookshelf-tackles-a-big-beast-wild-swans/

Bravo Elisabela Larrea & her new flashcards! Anything that helps the resugence & survival of patuá, traditional Macanese creole, is seriously welcome to save this heritage. UNESCO classifies pat...

http://www.chinarhyming.com/2024/04/20/patua-flashcards/