Mildred Dodge Jeremy Ingalls (April 2, 1911 - March 16, 2000) was an American

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and scholar of Chinese literature. In 1943, she received a

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to work on her major poem, ''The Thunder Saga of Tahi'', which was published in 1945 by Alfred Knopf.

Life

Ingalls grew up in

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. She received both her bachelor's and master's degrees from

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and studied Chinese at the

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. From 1948 to 1960, she taught at

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as Resident Poet and Professor of Asian Studies and served as head of the English Department. She then taught at

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in Oxford, Ohio. She had a foster son, Yong-ho Ch'oe. After Ingalls's death in 2000, Allen Wittenborn, who had met her when he was a graduate student at University of Arizona, later returned to her papers in the archives there. From nearly fifty boxes of her papers he edited the volume ''Dragon in Ambush: The Art of War in the Poems of Mao Zedong'' (2013), a translation and explication of 20 of Mao's earliest published poems. A reviewer called the volume "an extraordinary work, so full of information that it seems bursting at its roughly 500-page seams. This is not an entirely good thing, because the information provided, while often rich and resonant, is also frequently far-fetched and the assemblage of contents is somewhat unusual." Her papers are archived at several institutions: the

, the

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, and the

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Awards

* 1941:

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prize for ''The Metaphysical Sword'' * 1943:

* 1950/1951:

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Fellowship *

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Fellowship *

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Fellowship

Works

Poetry

* * 2nd edition AMS Press, 1971 * * * * *

Non-fiction

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Essays

Translations

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References

External links

"Jeremy Ingalls", ''Kore Press''

"Jeremy Ingalls: A Study", ''Kore Press Blog''
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