Agnes Smedley
A working introduction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8415435 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jan Mackinnon (corresponding author), Steve Mackinnon |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 6-11 |
| Publication date | 1975-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-4810 • E-ISSN: 1472-6033 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14672715.1975.10406356 |
| OpenAlex | W2316384691 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
To many Asians and informed Asia specialists, Agnes Smedley (1892-1950) is a folk heroine. Increasingly, her remarkable life and work with Indian and Chinese revolutionary movements serves to inspire scholar-activists in the Asian field—especially women. Yet, besides what she said in her books, we know little more about her than what is in the fragmented and often contradictory caricatures and stories told by her contemporaries. In this preliminary introduction to Smedley we shall try to begin separating myths from reality
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Asian studies · China · Field (mathematics · Mythology · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Classics · History · Philippine History and Culture · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |