LEADER 03656nam 2200589 a 450 001 9910822330003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a988-8180-20-7 010 $a988-220-414-7 010 $a1-283-87384-2 010 $a988-220-881-9 035 $a(CKB)2670000000280983 035 $a(MH)013398765-5 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000851532 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11482232 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000851532 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10848088 035 $a(PQKB)10192592 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000124910 035 $a(OCoLC)819635544 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse18841 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1073554 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10629234 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL418634 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1073554 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000280983 100 $a20121207d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aKnowledge Is pleasure$b[electronic resource] $ea life of Florence Ayscough /$fLindsay Shen 210 $aHong Kong $cHong Kong University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (x, 161 p. )$cill. (some col.) ; 225 0 $aRAS China in Shanghai series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a988-8139-59-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aShanghailanders 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. 330 3 $aFlorence Ayscough -- poet, translator, Sinologist, Shanghailander, "sensual realist", avid collector, pioneering photographer and early feminist champion of women's rights in China. Ayscough's modernist translations of the classical poets still command respect, her ethnographic studies of the lives of Chinese women still engender feminist critiques over three quarters of a century later and her collections of Chinese ceramics and objets now form an important part of several American museums' Asian art collections. Raised in Shanghai in an archetypal family in the late nineteenth century, Ayscough was to become anything but a typical foreigner in China. Encouraged by the New England poet Amy Lowell, she became a much sought-after translator in the early years of the new century, not least for her radical interpretations of the Tang dynasty poet Tu Fu published by the renowned literary critic Harriet Monroe. She later moved on to record China and particularly Chinese women using the new technology of photography, turn the Royal Asiatic Society's Shanghai library into the best on the China Coast and build several impressive collections featuring jars from the Dowager Empress Ci Xi, Ming and Qing ceramics. By the time of her death, Florence Ayscough left a legacy of collecting and scholarship unrivalled by any other foreign woman in China before or since. In this biography, Lindsay Shen recovers Ayscough for posterity and returns her to us as a woman of amazing intellectual vibrancy and strength. 410 0$aRAS China in Shanghai. 676 $a951.04092 700 $aShen$b Lindsay$01690357 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822330003321 996 $aKnowledge Is pleasure$94066012 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis 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