Barbara E. Ward

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

Life

Ward was born in 1919. She studied history at Newnham College, an all-women's college of the University of Cambridge. She then attended the University of London, where she gained a teaching qualification in 1942. For the next five years she taught in England and West Africa. 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.[3] 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.[3]

Selected works

• 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.

References

1. "Overview of the Barbara E. Ward papers". Collection Guide. Online Archive of California. Retrieved 14 January 2017.
2. "Obituary: Barbara E. Ward (1919-1983)". Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. 23: xviii–xxi. 1983-01-01. JSTOR 23886784.
3. "mccmcreations". mccmcreations. Retrieved 2017-01-14.