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"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 ethnogra...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Shen, Lindsay (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Hong Kong [China] : Hong Kong University Press, HKU, 2012.
Ã2012
Series:RAS China in Shanghai series of China Monographs.
Subjects:
Ayscough, Florence Wheelock, > 1878-1942.
Women collectors > China > Biography.
Women photographers > China > Biography.
Women translators > China > Biography.
Scholars > China > Biography.
Women scholars > China > Biography.
Sinologists > Biography.
Collectionneuses > Chine > Biographies.
Femmes photographes > Chine > Biographies.
Savants > Chine > Biographies.
Savantes > Chine > Biographies.
Sinologues > Biographies.
HISTORY > Asia > China.
Scholars.
Sinologists.
Women collectors.
Women photographers.
Women scholars.
Women translators.
China.
Electronic books.
collective biographies.
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Shanghailanders; 2. Images; 3. Words; 4. Gardens and the Grass Hut; 5. After China; Afterword; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; Plates.

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