03656nam 2200589 a 450 991082233000332120200520144314.0988-8180-20-7988-220-414-71-283-87384-2988-220-881-9(CKB)2670000000280983(MH)013398765-5(SSID)ssj0000851532(PQKBManifestationID)11482232(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000851532(PQKBWorkID)10848088(PQKB)10192592(StDuBDS)EDZ0000124910(OCoLC)819635544(MdBmJHUP)muse18841(Au-PeEL)EBL1073554(CaPaEBR)ebr10629234(CaONFJC)MIL418634(MiAaPQ)EBC1073554(EXLCZ)99267000000028098320121207d2012 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrKnowledge Is pleasure[electronic resource] a life of Florence Ayscough /Lindsay ShenHong Kong Hong Kong University Press20121 online resource (x, 161 p. )ill. (some col.) ;RAS China in Shanghai seriesBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph988-8139-59-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Shanghailanders Guns, gardens and long-gone houses -- Images The tastemaker -- Words The 'sensuous realist' -- Gardens and the grass hut 'A liberal education' -- After China holding open the door.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.RAS China in Shanghai.951.04092Shen Lindsay1690357MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822330003321Knowledge Is pleasure4066012UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress