Anne Veronica Witchard: 1 book
Thomas Burke's Dark Chinoiserie
Limehouse Nights and the Queer Spell of Chinatown
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Focusing on Thomas Burke's bestselling collection of short stories, Limehouse Nights (1916), this book contextualises the burgeoning cult of Chinatown in turn-of-the-century London. London's 'Chinese Quarter' owed its notoriety to the Yellow Perilism that circulated in Britain at the fin-de-siècle,...
