As well as visiting Beijing, the couple were together in Guangzhou and Hong Kong before Bell
departed for England.
Welland, Sasha Su-Ling. A Thousand Miles of Dreams: The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters. Rowman & Littlefield.
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Laurence, Patricia Ondek. Lily Briscoe’s Chinese Eyes: Bloomsbury, Modernism, and China. University of South Carolina Press.
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Textual Production
Ling Shuhua
LS and Julian Bell
translated and edited several of her stories during their romantic relationship in the mid-1930s, when Bell lived in China. At least one, Writing a Letter, went unpublished. Bell
sent...
Reception
Ling Shuhua
The novel's title is a clear allusion to Peter Stansky
's account of the couple' affair in his biography of Bell
, where Stansky identifies some of Bell
's lovers via letters of the alphabet...