In its special Book Number the "China Review", which is published in London, makes an interesting reterence to novels by Western writers on China. 'The journal points out that there is a long list of recent women novel welters, such as Mrs. Mun, Mrs. Buck, Mrs. Lewis, Mrs, Stone, Ann Bridges, Mrs. Hobart, Mrs. 'Elena Bochkovsky, and Mrs. Wain, tut male novelists seem to leave' China alone:
Whether profound ities or such accidental Considerations "are "to sceount for the feminising of felon mut China, the fact. of woman= Authorship Is obvious, There are great Values in the work that has been done these novelists, whatever the Inelting force has been, of the surface of something deeper. "The late "Put ham Weale™ used to write novels of China twenty-five years ago, before hie fumed. to books of contemporane: ous history about China. Since his Stories appeared it {shard 10 recall any male who has tried to. present China in fiction' form, excepting Adams Beck. Tt would be an interes! ing veftlcal task to have more "body" of novels about China by men to. Compare with the increasing Mbrary of such novels written by women, and ty to see whether any special qualities appear by season of the sex of the authors applied to a
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