帕特丽卡·劳伦斯，纽约市立大学博士、名誉教授。曾执教于瓦莎学院及哥伦比亚大学，现任教于纽约市立大学下属布鲁克林学院。专攻英国文学、文学理论、小说史及女性现代书写著有《阅读沉默：英国传统中的弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙》（斯坦福大学出版社，1991）。在《丽莉·布瑞斯珂的中国眼睛》一书中，凭借其在中英两国旅行时对文献资料的研究以及相关采访，劳伦斯将其对沉默的研究延伸至东方。

A map of the mutual influence of Bloomsbury, the Crescent Moon Society, and modernism in English and Chinese culture Lily Briscoe's Chinese Eyes traces the romance of Julian Bell, nephew of Virginia Woolf, and Ling Shuhua, a writer and painter Bell met while teaching at Wuhan University in China in 1935. Relying on a wide selection of previously unpublished writings, Patricia L...(展开全部)

The group of painters and writers who lived around Bloomsbury in the 1920s and '30s were without doubt the artistic leaders of their time. This book gives a scholarly and critical survey of the ideas and people that have had such a lasting impact on our cultural life.

The ideograph is conventionally understood as a script that is ancient and Chinese; it is neither. The 'ideograph' is a modern Western invention, one contemporaneous with, and related to, such modern inventions as photography, phonography, and cinematography. Ideographic Modernism analyzes the collective significance of an array of figures of Chinese writing in Euro-American li...(展开全部)

The ideograph is conventionally understood as a script that is ancient and Chinese; it is neither. The 'ideograph' is a modern Western invention, one contemporaneous with, and related to, such modern inventions as photography, phonography, and cinematography. Ideographic Modernism analyzes the collective significance of an array of figures of Chinese writing in Euro-American li...(展开全部)

The first major study in over three decades to explore the essential arguments of all the major theoretical interpretations of nationalism, from the modernist approaches of Gellner, Nairn, Breuilly, Giddens and Hobsbawm to the alternative paradigms of van den Bergh and Geertz, Armstrong and Smith himself. In a style accessible to the student and the general reader Smith traces ...(展开全部)

“Lily and the Octopus is the dog book you must read this summer…a profound experience.” —The Washington Post Combining the emotional depth of The Art of Racing in the Rain with the magical spirit of The Life of Pi, Lily and the Octopus is an epic adventure of the heart. When you sit down with Lily and the Octopus, you will be taken on an unforgettable ride. The magic of this no...(展开全部)

“Lily and the Octopus is the dog book you must read this summer…a profound experience.” —The Washington Post Combining the emotional depth of The Art of Racing in the Rain with the magical spirit of The Life of Pi, Lily and the Octopus is an epic adventure of the heart. When you sit down with Lily and the Octopus, you will be taken on an unforgettable ride. The magic of this no...(展开全部)