Sea-shore
aka Anne Chen
- Nov 16, 2015
He Chinesed them good and proper. This is the book, link below, and his own illustrations of High Force in Teesdale, (my parents live very near there) and rabbits in Wharfedale.
Chiang Yee wrote this book while staying in a small flat in London which was bombed, the day before the Burma railway re-opened. He liked rabbits and was shocked that we ate them sometimes. He was himself born in a Rabbit Year. He made this trip to Yorkshire in 1940 and said anyone who did not believe in civilisation, and was ready to fight for it, support it and serve it, might just as well die right away. He could not fight, but he could write about what he saw here, and draw it, and serve European civilisation in that way, and his own at the same time. It's such a lovely book, and with many stories from China, too. But he didn't get any Yorkshire pudding while he was here, though he got it in a restaurant in Shanghai before he came; thinking to do his research
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Silent-Traveller-Yorkshire-Dales/dp/B000TNEUHM
View attachment 1033 View attachment 1035
Here's a photo of my dad's artwork, drawn on the back of a calendar page in biro:
Last edited:
