The Resource Knowledge is pleasure : Florence Ayscough in Shanghai, Lindsay Shen
Knowledge is pleasure : Florence Ayscough in Shanghai, Lindsay Shen
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The item Knowledge is pleasure : Florence Ayscough in Shanghai, Lindsay Shen represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries.
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- 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 the lives of Chinese women still engender feminist critiques over three quarters of a century later and her 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 in the late nineteenth century, Ayscough was to become anything but a typical foreigner in China. Encouraged by the New England poet Amy Lowell, she became 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 using the 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."--Project Muse
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 161 pages)
- Contents
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- Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Shanghailanders; 2. Images; 3. Words; 4. Gardens and the Grass Hut; 5. After China; Afterword; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; Plates
- Isbn
- 9789882208810
- Label
- Knowledge is pleasure : Florence Ayscough in Shanghai
- Title
- Knowledge is pleasure
- Title remainder
- Florence Ayscough in Shanghai
- Statement of responsibility
- Lindsay Shen
- Title variation
- Florence Ayscough in Shanghai
- Subject
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- Biography
- China
- Electronic books
- HISTORY -- Asia | China
- Scholars
- Scholars -- China -- Biography
- Sinologists
- Sinologists -- Biography
- Women collectors
- Women collectors -- China -- Biography
- Women photographers
- Women photographers -- China -- Biography
- Women scholars
- Women scholars -- China -- Biography
- Women translators
- Women translators -- China -- Biography
- Ayscough, Florence Wheelock, 1878-1942
- Ayscough, Florence Wheelock, 1878-1942
- Language
- eng
- 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 the lives of Chinese women still engender feminist critiques over three quarters of a century later and her 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 in the late nineteenth century, Ayscough was to become anything but a typical foreigner in China. Encouraged by the New England poet Amy Lowell, she became 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 using the 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."--Project Muse
- Cataloging source
- Nz
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Shen, Lindsay
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- RAS China in Shanghai
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Ayscough, Florence Wheelock
- Ayscough, Florence Wheelock
- Women collectors
- Women photographers
- Women translators
- Scholars
- Women scholars
- Sinologists
- HISTORY
- Scholars
- Sinologists
- Women collectors
- Women photographers
- Women scholars
- Women translators
- China
- Label
- Knowledge is pleasure : Florence Ayscough in Shanghai, Lindsay Shen
- Antecedent source
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- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-157) and index (p. 159-161)
- Carrier category
- online resource
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
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- Contents
- Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Shanghailanders; 2. Images; 3. Words; 4. Gardens and the Grass Hut; 5. After China; Afterword; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; Plates
- Control code
- ocn821734055
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 161 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9789882208810
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- illustrations
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- 22573/ctt1kdbkc
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- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)821734055
- Label
- Knowledge is pleasure : Florence Ayscough in Shanghai, Lindsay Shen
- Antecedent source
- not applicable
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-157) and index (p. 159-161)
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Shanghailanders; 2. Images; 3. Words; 4. Gardens and the Grass Hut; 5. After China; Afterword; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; Plates
- Control code
- ocn821734055
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 161 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9789882208810
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt1kdbkc
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- not applicable
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)821734055
Subject
- Biography
- China
- Electronic books
- HISTORY -- Asia | China
- Scholars
- Scholars -- China -- Biography
- Sinologists
- Sinologists -- Biography
- Women collectors
- Women collectors -- China -- Biography
- Women photographers
- Women photographers -- China -- Biography
- Women scholars
- Women scholars -- China -- Biography
- Women translators
- Women translators -- China -- Biography
- Ayscough, Florence Wheelock, 1878-1942
- Ayscough, Florence Wheelock, 1878-1942
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