He, who became an artist-in-residence at Green Templeton College in 2018, said he knew the city “very well”, as he had “never lived in any other place for so long, even in China”.<\/p>\n
“The very route I cycle daily into town was the same road Charles and Sebastian drove in their vintage car to the countryside.”<\/p>\n
He said he would not depict the “really familiar” places mentioned in the book such as the Botley Road, High Street and Broad Street.<\/p>\n
“I feel it’s something really already inside of me, but for Chinese readers, maybe there’s something new.”<\/p>\n
The artist said he had searched for “vast numbers” of images from the 1920s and 1930s online, hoping to “get as close as possible to the Oxford of that era”.<\/p>\n
“The translation [is] just excellent and is being welcomed in China.”<\/p>\n