The quest for gentility in China: negotiations beyond gender and class

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Other Authors: Berg, Daria (Editor) , Starr, Chloë (Editor)
Format: Edited Volume
Language:English
Published: London [u.a.] Routledge 2007
Series:Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia 47
In: Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia (47)

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Online Access:Verlag, Inhaltsverzeichnis, Inhaltsverzeichnis: http://www.gbv.de/dms/hbz/toc/ht015402849.pdf
Verlag, Table of contents only: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0720/2007024988.html
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Author Notes:ed. by Daria Berg and Chloe Starr
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Item Description:Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Part I: Event -- Gentility in transition: travels, novels, and the new guixiu / Ellen Widmer -- Washing the wutong tree: garden culture as an expression of women's gentility in the late Ming / Alison Hardie -- Gentility in a Shanghai literary salon of the 1930s / Michel Hockx -- Negotiating gentility: the Banana Garden Poetry Club in seventeenth-century China / Daria Berg -- Part II: Reflection -- Female gentility in transition and transmission: mother-daughter ties in Ming/Qing China / Ping-chen Hsiung -- Virtuous surrogates: moral action and substitution in the case of Yang Jisheng / Kenneth Hammond -- Sartorial modesty and genteel ideals in the late Ming / Sarah Dauncey -- The aspirant genteel: the courtesan and her image problem / Chloe Starr -- Part III: Transmission -- Textbooks on an aesthetic life in late Ming China / Oki Yasushi -- Searching for gentility: the nineteenth-century fashion for the late Ming / Anne Gerritsen -- In spite of gentility: women and men in Linglong, a 1930s women's magazine / Barbara Mittler -- The Chinese gentlewoman in the public gaze: Ling Shuhua in twentieth-century China and Britain / Jeesoon Hong
ISBN:9780203938232
9780415435864
0415435862