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Knowledge is pleasure : Florence Ayscough inShanghai

Record Type:	Electronic resources : monographic
Title Information:	Florence Ayscough inShanghai
Author:	ShenLindsay,
Secondary Intellectual Responsibility:	Project Muse
Place of Publication:	Hong Kong [China]
Published:	Hong Kong University Press, HKU;
Year of Publication:	2012
Description:	1 online resource (x, 161 p.)ill. :
Series:	RAS China in Shanghai
Subject:	Women collectors - Biography - China -
Subject:	Women photographers - Biography - China -
Subject:	Women translators - Biography - China -
Subject:	Scholars - Biography - China -
Subject:	Women scholars - Biography - China -
Subject:	Sinologists - Biography -
Personal Subject:	Ayscough - Florence Wheelock -
Online resource:	http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9789882208810/
Notes:	Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
Summary:	Florence Ayscough -- poet, translator, Sinologist, Shanghailander, "sensual realist", avid collector, pioneering photographer and early feminist champion of women's rights in China. Ayscough's modernist translations of the classical poets still command respect, her ethnographic studies of thelives of Chinese women still engender feminist critiques over three quarters of a century later andher collections of Chinese ceramics and objets now form an important part of several American museums' Asian art collections. Raised in Shanghai in an archetypal family inthe late nineteenth century,Ayscough was to become anything but a typical foreigner in China. Encouraged by the New England poet Amy Lowell,she beclme a much sought-after translator in the early years of the new century, not least for her radical interpretations of the Tang dynasty poet Tu Fu published by the renowned literary critic Harriet Monroe. She later moved on to record China and particularly Chinese women usingthe new technology of photography, turn the Royal Asiatic Society's Shanghai library into the best on the China Coast and build several impressive collections featuring jars from the Dowager Empress Ci Xi, Ming and Qing ceramics. By the time of her death, Florence Ayscough left a legacy of collecting and scholarship unrivalled by any other foreign woman in China before or since. In this biography, Lindsay Shen recovers Ayscough for posterity and returns her to us as a woman of amazing intellectual vibrancy and strength
ISBN:	9789882208810electronic bk.
ISBN:	9789888139590pbk.

Knowledge is pleasure : Florence Ayscough inShanghai
Shen, Lindsay

Knowledge is pleasure : Florence Ayscough inShanghai / Lindsay Shen - Hong Kong [China] : Hong Kong University Press, HKU, 2012. - 1 online resource (x, 161 p.) ; ill.. - (RAS China in Shanghai).
Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSEIncludes bibliographical references (p. 155-157) and index (p. 159-161).
ISBN 9789882208810ISBN 9789888139590
Women collectorsWomen photographersWomen translatorsScholarsWomen scholarsSinologists -- Biography -- Biography -- Biography -- Biography -- Biography -- Biography -- China -- China -- China -- China -- China

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