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Society encourages new research
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The Royal Asiatic Society in Shanghai was re-established to carry on the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society that was active between 1857 and 1952.
The society, reconvened in Shanghai in 2007, has launched new projects such as the monograph series that encourage scholars to explore new areas. Two books were published for the monograph series.
‘Knowledge Is Pleasure — Florence Ayscough in Shanghai’
Author: Lindsay Shen
The book explores the exciting and rich life of Florence Asycough as a Shanghilander, a collector of Chinese art, a poet, writer, feminist and translator of classic Chinese poems.
Asycough was born in Shanghai to a Canadian businessman father and an American mother. She grew up in China and returned to the United States at 11, and returned to the city in her 20s and became a poet, translator and writer.
She was one of the first Western scholars to write about Chinese women, as in her book “Chinese Women: Yesterday and Today” (1937) which introduced women’s lives in old and modern China as well as remarkable women scholars, revolutionaries, warriors and artists in ancient and contemporary China.
‘Lao She in London’
Author: Anne Witchard
Lao She, born Shu Qingchun (1899-1966), was one of the best-known, most influential and prolific Chinese writers, known for a distinctive sense of humor and portraying the city of Beijing as a lively character in almost all his novels.
This book focuses on the intriguing years between 1924 and 1929, when Shu taught Chinese at the School of Oriental Studies (now the School of Oriental and African Studies) at the University of London.
There, he encountered British modernism and read English novels extensively before deciding to become a novelist.
He once wrote that “if I had stayed in China, I would probably not have become a novelist.”
It was in London that he, at the time in his early 20s, finished his first published novel “The Philosophy of Old Zhang” (1926). The London experience also inspired one of his most famous works “Mr Ma and Son: Two Chinese in London” (1929).
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