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1 online resource (x, 161 pages) : illustrations. |
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RAS China in Shanghai
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RAS China in Shanghai series of China Monographs.
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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. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-157) and index (pages 159-161). |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Shanghailanders; 2. Images; 3. Words; 4. Gardens and the Grass Hut; 5. After China; Afterword; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; Plates. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ayscough, Florence Wheelock, 1878-1942.
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Ayscough, Florence Wheelock, 1878-1942. |
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Ayscough, Florence Wheelock, 1878-1942. |
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Women collectors -- China -- Biography.
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Women collectors. |
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China. |
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Biographies.
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Women photographers -- China -- Biography.
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Women photographers. |
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Women translators -- China -- Biography.
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Women translators. |
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Scholars -- China -- Biography.
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Scholars. |
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Women scholars -- China -- Biography.
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Women scholars. |
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Sinologists -- Biography.
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Sinologists. |
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Electronic books.
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Dictionaries.
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Dictionaries.
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Biographies.
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| Added Title |
Florence Ayscough in Shanghai |
| Other Form: |
Print version: 9888139592 9789888139590 |
| ISBN |
9789882208810 (electronic book) |
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9882208819 (electronic book) |
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9789882204140 (electronic book) |
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9882204147 (electronic book) |
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9882208819 |
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9789888139590 |
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9888139592 |
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