Knowledge Is Pleasure: Florence Ayscough in Shanghai

by Lindsay Shen

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9888139592
• ISBN13: 9789888139590
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
• Length: 161 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 6.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher