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Knowledge is pleasure = Florence Ayscough inShanghai /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Knowledge is pleasure/ Lindsay Shen.
Reminder of title:	Florence Ayscough inShanghai /
Author:	Shen, Lindsay.
Published:	Hong Kong [China] :Hong Kong University Press, HKU, : 2012.,
Description:	1 online resource (x, 161 p.) :ill. :
Notes:	Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subject:	Women collectors - Biography. - China -
Online resource:	Full text available:
ISBN:	9789882208810 (electronic bk.)

Knowledge is pleasure = Florence Ayscough inShanghai /
Shen, Lindsay.

Knowledge is pleasureFlorence Ayscough inShanghai /[electronic resource] :Lindsay Shen. - Hong Kong [China] :Hong Kong University Press, HKU,2012. - 1 online resource (x, 161 p.) :ill. - RAS China in Shanghai. - RAS China in Shanghai..

Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-157) and index (p. 159-161).

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 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 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: 9789882208810 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Personal Names:

959028
Ayscough, Florence Wheelock,
1878-1942.Subjects--Topical Terms:

959030
Women collectors
--China--Biography.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR6001.Y8 / Z56 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 951.04092

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