Word: waley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...court attired in black Homburgs, black overcoats, elegantly-gathered silk scarves. Six-foot Edith wore a hat like a medieval mitre clapped dead-straight on her resolute forehead. The courtroom was packed with publishers, booksellers, literary celebrities, including pro-Sitwell witnesses, Novelist Charles Morgan (The Fountain), and Sinologist Arthur Waley...
...Vase Plum-blossom) was written by a famed 16th-Century Confucian scholar as a satire on the private life of a corrupt official. The official received a presentation copy, fell dead as he finished the last of its 1,600 subtly poisoned pages. No believer in such legend, Arthur Waley, expert on Chinese literature, says the novel's authorship is doubtful, like that of China's other famed novels. He traces first mention of it to a book published around 1600, wherein Chin P'ing Mei is highly commended as an aid to companionable drinking. Banned some...