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050		4	_aPR6001.Y8 _bZ56 2012
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100	1		_aShen, Lindsay.
245	1	0	_aKnowledge is pleasure _h[electronic resource] : _bFlorence Ayscough in Shanghai / _cLindsay Shen.
260			_aHong Kong [China] : _bHong Kong University Press, HKU, _c2012. _e(Baltimore, Md.: _fJohns Hopkins University Press, Project MUSE, _g2012) _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject MUSE, _g2015)
300			_a1 online resource (1 electronic text (x, 161 p.) :) _bill. digital file.
490	1		_aRAS China in Shanghai
500			_aIssued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 155-157) and index (p. 159-161).
520	3		_aFlorence 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.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
600	1	0	_aAyscough, Florence Wheelock, _d1878-1942.
650		0	_aWomen collectors _zChina _vBiography.
650		0	_aWomen photographers _zChina _vBiography.
650		0	_aWomen translators _zChina _vBiography.
650		0	_aScholars _zChina _vBiography.
650		0	_aWomen scholars _zChina _vBiography.
650		0	_aSinologists _vBiography.
655		0	_aElectronic books.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9888139592 _z9789888139590
710	2		_aProject Muse.
830		0	_aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
830		0	_aRAS China in Shanghai.
830		0	_aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9789882208810/
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c35995 _d35995