Knowledge is pleasure : Florence Ayscough in Shanghai

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Knowledge is pleasure : Florence Ayscough in Shanghai

Title remainder

Florence Ayscough in Shanghai

Statement of responsibility

Lindsay Shen

Title variation

Florence Ayscough in Shanghai

Creator

• Shen, Lindsay

Author

• Shen, Lindsay

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

Genre

• Electronic books
• Biography

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

Member of

• RAS China in Shanghai series of China Monographs

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Nz

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illustrations

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

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RAS China in Shanghai