13. Mr Ma and son in London
Book Details
This original version depicted above was self-published in 2003 and is no longer available. This work represents the 13th of 33 of the Chinese Culture Series.
In 2013 Penguin Australia and Beijing published the work as titled, Lao She, Mr Ma and Son, with an Introduction by Julia Lovell, Senior Lecturer in Chinese History and Literature at the University of London.
- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Classics (7 Aug. 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 014320811X
- ISBN-13: 978-0143208112
Whilst this work of 2014 is no longer in print, we are working hard to find out if we can republish this version, or indeed of the self-published edition of 2003.
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As taken from the back of the original self-published 2003 edition of the book:
Written in London in 1929, this novel, by Lao She, China’s supreme writer of Chinese prose in modern times, is the only one to depict the early meeting of Chinese and Western cultures on a personal level. It tells how an elderly Chinese man and his young son come to London and run their business, and how they interact with the native environment and people, in a moving, romantic, humorous way, telling us so much about Chinese and British attitudes.
As taken from the back of the 2013 Penguin edition of the book:
Mr Ma and his son Ma Wei run an antiques shop nestled in a quiet street by St. Paul’s cathedral in London, where, far from their native Peking, they struggle to navigate the bustling pavements and myriad of social conventions of 1920s English society.
From their well-meaning landlady Mrs Wedderburn and her carefree daughter Mary, to the old China hands the Reverend Ely and his formidable wife, the Mas encounter all sorts in this story of unexpected love, crossed wires and antipathy.
A major contribution to the early twentieth-century conversation on Sino-British relations, Mr Ma and Son, is a compelling, witty tale of cultural give-and-take from one of China’s best-loved authors.
List of Books in the Chinese Culture Series
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- Bring on the Wine and other Poems by Li Pai
- Chinese Poetry Through The Ages: an Anthology
- Chinese Short Stories - Spanning 2000 Years
- History of early Chinese Ch'ü-aria Poetry
- Sayings of Confucius and his Students
- Ma Chih-yüan's Complete San-ch'ü-aria Poems
- Wang Shi-Fu, Author of China's Most Famous Play
- West Wing Chantefable by Tung Chieh-yüan
- Sir Old, the Chinese Classic of Taoism
- Peking Opera
- Yüan Dynasty Variety Plays
- Mr Ma and son in London
- Songs Classic: China’s earliest poetry anthology
- Classical Chinese textbook
- Three Hundred T'ang Dynasty Poems
- Yüan Dynasty Variety Play dramas: 100 stories
- Chinese Folk-tales
- Chinese Humour: an Anthology
- Gold-producing Mansion
- Chinese Riddles
- Chinese Elliptical Idioms (hsieh-hou-yu)
- West Wing, China's most famous drama
- Washing Silk, a drama by Liang Ch'en-yi (1520-ca.1580)
- Chinee Drama Poems
- Chinese Prose: Biographies, Prefaces, Anecdotes ...
- Chinese Myths
- Chinese Prose: Biographies, Prefaces, Anecdotes ...
- Lasting-life Palace-hall by Hung Sheng (1654-1704)
- Chinese non-drama aria-poems, an anthology (VOLUME ONE)
- Chinese Poetry Through the Ages
- Dictionary of Chinese Idioms, Proverbs and Sayings
- Anthology of Chinese non-drama aria-poems (VOLUME TWO)