Su Man-shu (1884 - 1918). A Sino-Japanese Genius.
London. China Society. 1960. Stock ID #123831 China Society Sinological Series No. 6. "Many features combined to make of Su Man-shu a controversial and fascinating figure: his mixed parentage, his poetic gifts, his involvement in the intellectual life of early Republican China, his initiation as a Buddhist monk. And over all looms the legend of the wanderer, the romantic exile, dear to the memory of the whole generation of Chinese readers. The author of this new biography distinguishes fact from fantasy with sympathy and understanding. The legend is identified as the deliberate product of Su's own imagination, exercised chiefly through one remarkable story which appears here in tasteful translation." From the blurb. When referring to this item please quote stockid 123831.
51pp, notes, hardback. Dustjacket trifle yellowed at edges, endpapers lightly foxed, a very good copy.
Price: $40.00 AU