Chiang Yee: The Silent Traveller from the East--A Cultural Biography

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preface 1. Chiang Yee, The Silent Traveller in San Francisco (NY: Norton, 1977), 197. 2. Chiang Yee, China Revisited (New York: Norton, 1977), 34. 3. Erich Auerbach, Mimesis (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1953), 557. 4. Moustafa Bayoumi and Andrew Rubin, eds., The Edward Said Reader (New York: Vintage Books, 2000), 224–225. 5. Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia, trans. E.F.N. Jephcott (London: Verso, 1978), 33–39. 6. Robert E. Cantwell, “Chiang Yee’s Travels,” Newsweek, 4 January 1954, 63. 7. Bayoumi and Rubin, eds., The Edward Said Reader, 227. 8. Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands (New York: Penguin, 1991), 10–11. 9. Jan Borm, “Defining Travel: On the Travel Book, Travel Writing and Terminology,” in Perspectives on Travel Writing, eds. Glenn Hooper and Tim Youngs (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004), 13–26. 10. Chiang, China Revisited, 49. 11. Chiang Yee, The Silent Traveller in New York (New York: John Day, 1950), 130. 12. Chiang, New York, 77. 13. Chiang Yee, The Silent Traveller: A Chinese Artist in Lakeland (London: Country Life, 1937), 56. 14. Chiang, San Francisco, 245. Jiujiang is the modern spelling of the city Kiukiang. The author has made the change here and a few other places in the book 15. Ibid., 245. 16. Ibid., 246. 17. F.S.C. Northrop, Meeting of East and West: An Inquiry Concerning World Understanding (New York: Macmillan, 1946), ix–x. 18. Ibid., 318. 19. Ibid., 320. 20. Cantwell, “Chiang Yee’s Travels,” 62–63. 21. Northrop, Meeting of East and West, iv. 22. Chiang, New York, 4. 23. Chiang Yee, The Silent Traveller in Edinburgh (London: Methuen, 1948), 103. 24. Chiang Yee, The Silent Traveller in the Yorkshire Dales (London: Methuen, 1941), 80. 267 N O T E S chapter 1 — chinese childhood 1. Chiang Yee, A Chinese Childhood (London: Methuen, 1940), 12. According to his unpublished memoir, the four Chinese characters are “Zhong Hou Ren Ai.” See Chiang Yee, “Memoir” [ca. 1972], Lo Hong-lit’s collection. 2. Chien-kuo Chiang, in discussion with the author, November 29, 2000. 3. Chiang, Childhood, 206. 4. Ibid., 48. 5. Chiang Yee, China Revisited (New York: Norton, 1977), 16. 6. Chiang, Childhood, 1. 7. Ibid., 90. 8. Ibid., 9. 9. Chiang Yee, The Silent Traveller in London (London: Country Life, 1938), 157. 10. Chiang, Childhood, 56. 11. Ibid., 62. 12. Ibid., 79. 13. Ibid., 72–73. 14. Jonathan D. Spence, The Search for Modern China (New York: Norton, 1990), 155–160. 15. Ray Huang, China: A Macro History (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1990), 201–202. 16. Ibid., 214–215. 17. Spence, Modern China, 231–235. 18. Ibid., 238–244. 19. Chen Wenhua and Chen Ronghua, eds., Jiangxi tongshi [A comprehensive history of Jiangxi] (Nanchang: Jiangxi renmin chubanshe, 1999), 710–712. 20. Ibid., 721–724. 21. Ibid., 594–604, 643–652. 22. Ibid., 727–732. 23. Chiang, Childhood, 50–51. 24. Huang Runxiang and others, eds. Lushan Luyou shouce [Tourists’ guide of Lu Mountain ] (Nanchang: Jiangxi jiaoyu chubanshe, 1985), 148–150. 25. Chiang, Childhood, 50–51. 26. Ibid., 96, 240. 27. Ibid., 98. 28. Ibid., 103–110, 133–139. 29. Chen and Chen, Jiangxi, 695–698. 30. Chiang, Childhood, 31–35. 31. Ibid., 119. 32. Ibid., 115–120. 33. Ibid., 18–20, 56–60, 233. 34. Chiang Yee, Birds and Beasts (London: Country Life, 1939). 35. Chiang Yee, “Yangren yu gou” [Foreigners and dogs], Dacheng [Panorama Magazine] 6 (1974):16. 36. Chiang, Childhood, 193. 37. Tan Danjiong, Xunyang jiangtou [On Xunyang River] (Taizhong: Yinshua chubanshe, 1995), 72. 38. Chiang, Childhood, 160–164. 39. Ibid., 164–166. 40. Ibid., 167. 41. Ibid., 272–276; Chiang, “Memoir.” notes to pages 1–16 268 42. Chiang, London, 115. 43. Ho-an Chiang died at age fifty-two. See Chiang, Childhood, 45. He committed suicide by drowning himself in the river, and the cause was unknown. According to family members, it was probably related to financial disputes inside the family. His death must have been devastating to Chiang Yee, who was fifteen at the time. With the loss of his mother, paternal grandfather, and father, Yee literally became an orphan, even though he was living with his brother and uncles. chapter 2 — revolutionary era 1. Chow Tse-tsung, The May Fourth Movement (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1960), 46. 2. John King Fairbank, China: A New History (Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 1992), 266–267. 3. Chiang Yee, A Chinese Childhood (London: Methuen, 1940), 302–303. 4...