Author: Xiao Bai

Cites

• W. H. Auden (2)
  • IN: French Concession (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And walked like an assasin through the town, And looked at men and did not like them, But trembled if one passed him with a frown.
    FROM: In Time of War: A Sonnet Sequence with a Verse Commentary, (1939), Poem, US/England
• Eric Hobsbawm (2)
  • IN: French Concession (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In fact, when the moment came, power had not so much to be seized as to be picked up. I has been said that more people were injured in the making of Einstein's great film October (1927) than had been hurt during the actual taking of the Winter Palace on 7th November 1917.
    FROM: The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, (1994), NULL, UK