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Mai-Mai Sze. Yuen Tsung Sze ( Chinese: 施蕴珍; [1] December 2, 1909 – July 16, 1992), known professionally as Mai-mai Sze ( 施美美 ), [1] was a Chinese-American painter and writer. The Bollingen Foundation first published her translation of the Jieziyuan Huazhuan or The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting with her commentary in 1956.
- July 16, 1992 (aged 82), New York City, US
- Yuen Tsung Sze, December 2, 1909, Tianjin, China
May 16, 2016 · Mai-mai Sze (1909-1992), c. 1940 by George Hoyningen-Huene. Throughout most of their adult lives and particularly at a time when both women were taking a firmer foothold in their careers in the 1950s, any public admission of their private relationship – however they would have defined it – may have had a harmful effect on their success.
Oct 27, 2021 · Her partner, Mai-Mai Sze, was a Chinese American painter, translator, and political activist. Even despite a disheartening rejection from James Cahill and Nelson Wu on her first publication, Sze is known for her translation of Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting in The Tao of Painting (1956), the fictional piece Silent Children (1948), and ...
Jul 18, 1992 · Mai-mai Sze, a painter and author, died in New York Hospital in Manhattan on Thursday. She was 82 years old. Ms. Sze died of throat cancer, said Jean B. Angell, a close friend who was her lawyer.
The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting: A Facsimile of the 1887-1888 Shanghai Edition. Originally published as Volume 2 of The Tao of Painting, this is the first English translation of the famous Chinese handbook, the “Chieh Tzu Yüan Hua Chuan” (original, 1679-1701). Mai-mai Sze has translated and annotated the texts of instructions ...
Mai-Mai Sze was a Chinese-American painter, writer, translator, and performer. Born in 1909 in China, she grew up in London and the United States while her father served as ambassador from China, first to the United Kingdom and then the U.S. Sze graduated from Wellesley College; she wrote several books, including a memoir. She died in 1992.
Jun 15, 2015 · Mai-mai’s reading was part of her search for identity in a world in which she felt she belonged to neither the culture of her birth in the east nor the society of her upbringing and adult life in the west. With Mai-mai Sze, reading, annotating, and translating was an intensely personal act that that helped her to situate herself in the world ...
