Barbara E. Ward (1919–1983) was a British social anthropologist and academic, who specialised in Chinese society.[1]

Life

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Ward was born in 1919. She studied history at Newnham College, an all-women's college of the University of Cambridge.[2] She then attended the University of London, where she gained a diploma in education (a teaching qualification) in 1942.[3] For the next five years she taught in England and West Africa.[2] While teaching in Ghana, she became interested in social anthropology.[3] In 1949, she completed a master's degree from the London School of Economics having studied the Ewe speaking people of Ghana.[2]

In 1950, Ward moved to Hong Kong. She taught sociology at Chinese University of Hong Kong, rising to the rank of reader.[4] She spent three years studying the anthropology of the Kau Sai people. She returned many times to China and wrote about the New Territories area.[2]

During her academic career, she lectured at the University of London, Cornell University, the University of Cambridge, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.[2]

At the end of her life she was preparing a book on the boat people of Hong Kong.[4]

Selected works

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  • Ward, Barbara E. (1957). The Interplay of East and West: Elements of Contrast and Co-Operation. George Allen & Unwin.
  • Ward, Barbara E. (1963). Women in the new Asia: the changing social roles of men and women in South and South-east Asia. Paris: UNESCO.
  • Ward, Barbara E.; Law, Joan (1982). Chinese festivals in Hong Kong. Hong Kong: China Books & Periodicals. ISBN 978-9621000026.
  • Ward, Barbara E. (1985). Through Other Eyes. Hong Kong: Chinese University. ISBN 978-9622013247.
  • Ward, Barbara E. (1985). "Kau Sai, an Unfinished Manuscript" (PDF). Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch. 25: 27–118. ISSN 1991-7295.

References

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  1. ^ "Overview of the Barbara E. Ward papers". Collection Guide. Online Archive of California. Retrieved 14 January 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Obituary: Barbara E. Ward (1919-1983)". Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. 23: xviii–xxi. 1 January 1983. JSTOR 23886784.
  3. ^ a b Topley, Marjorie (1983). "Obituary: BARBARA E. WARD". RAIN. 55. Royal Anthropological Institute: 13–14. Retrieved 4 October 2021.
  4. ^ a b "mccmcreations". mccmcreations. Retrieved 14 January 2017.