Books started but haven’t finished yet:
|
Title |
Author |
Details |
Notes |
|
Cultural Theory &
Popular Culture |
John Storey |
Longman edition, PRC
copy edition bought in |
It’s on the reading
list. Just found out some passages have been edited out in the PRC edition,
primarily due to political and ideological reasons. |
|
Status Anxiety |
Alain de Botton |
Penguin 2004, pointlessly
on glossy paper |
De Botton’s always been
witty in his writings. A description and (so far as I can see) social history
of the concept of ‘status’. |
|
The Portrait of a Lady |
Henry James |
Oxford Classics edition,
PRC copy edition bought in |
Too thick. Looks a bit
intimidating. |
|
What Great Paintings Say
(Vol 1) |
Dr.
Rainer & Rose-Marie Hagen |
Taschen 2005 |
V good and interesting. |
|
法國－中國：兩個世界的碰撞 |
Muriel
Détrie 余磊、朱志平譯 |
上海譯文出版社 2004 |
Look forward to reading the
original. |
|
文化漫談 |
何兆武 |
中國人民大學出版社 2004 |
It’s on the reading
list. |