TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shen,Lindsay
ED  - Project Muse.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Knowledge is pleasure: Florence Ayscough in Shanghai 
T2  - RAS China in Shanghai
SN  - 9789882208810
AV  - PR6001.Y8 Z56 2012
U1  - 951.04092 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Hong Kong [China]
PB  - Hong Kong University Press, HKU
KW  - Ayscough, Florence Wheelock,
KW  - Women collectors
KW  - China
KW  - Biography
KW  - Women photographers
KW  - Women translators
KW  - Scholars
KW  - Women scholars
KW  - Sinologists
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE; Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-157) and index (p. 159-161)
N2  - 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9789882208810/
ER  -