The 17th Century Tale of Lady Liu and Lady Remington
& A Twentieth Century Postscript
By Hung Liu and Moira Roth

ISSN 1462-0426

Preface

This tale was inspired by a conversation on July 29 1996 between Hung Liu and myself over dinner at her house in Oakland (where she was recovering from surgery). She told me that she had just received a phone call requesting the name of a ‘at-least-seventy-five-year-old-dead’ Chinese woman artist for some project in New York, and could not provide one. We talked idly of research and invention.

I went home and, taken by fancy, began to write rather feverishly.
Faxes went back and forth between the two of us and within three days our tale was finished on July 31st 1996

Moira Roth,Berkeley.

The tale, over the next four web pages, begins with a letter from Lady Remington found in the British Museum.....

N.Paradoxa : December 1996

Copyright : © text : Moira Roth , images : Hung Liu, July 1996