A Little Tragedy at Tien-Tsin.
New York. G.W. Dillingham Company. (c 1906). [Reprint]. Stock ID #168928 A curious collection of short stories set in China or amongst the Chinese community in the US by American author Frances Aymar Mathews. The story from which the book takes its title was first published in Harper's Monthly. While another journal well known for its coverage of Asian affairs at the time, The Overland, largely ignored the disasterous fighting, deaths, looting and destruction going on in China during the Boxer Rebellion, Harper's Monthly published this "peculiar story" alongside political essays of the time. Set in Tien-Tsin, a city which had suffered terribly, this is the story of "an illicit intimacy" between an American writer and a young Chinese housewife which not surprisingly ends in tragedy. A story which strongly reflects the attitudes of its time. Yu-Fang describes it: "This story evokes the colonial trope of "enslaved" Chinese women's liberation through Christianity and heterosexual love while displacing violent colonial encounters into a domestic tragedy of illicit inter-racial intimacy." (Cultural Politics of Deviance and Unequal Difference 1890-1910 - Yu-Fang Cho. SUNY. 2013). When referring to this item please quote stockid 168928.
Colour frontispiece, 426pp + 2 adverts, neat pencilled inscription front free endpaper dated 1910,spine sunned with light rubbing to head and tail. Very good copy
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