The quest for gentility in China negotiations beyond gender and class

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 gen...

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Weitere Verfasser: Berg, Daria (HerausgeberIn), Starr, Chloë (HerausgeberIn)
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Veröffentlicht: London u.a. Routledge 2007
Schriftenreihe:Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia 47
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung: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
Beschreibung:XVI, 299 Seiten
Ill.
24 cm
ISBN:9780203938232
978-0-203-93823-2
9780415435864
978-0-415-43586-4
0415435862
0-415-43586-2