ISBN:
0415435862
,
9780203938232
,
9780415435864
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xvi, 299 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia
Parallel Title:
Print version The Quest for Gentility in China : Negotiations Beyond Gender and Class
DDC:
302.0951
Keywords:
Social classes History
;
China Social life and customs
Abstract:
Exploring an important feature of Chinese culture and civilization - the quest for gentility - over a long period of time (since the seventeenth century/late Ming period), this book examines its meanings and how it is transmitted and is displayed in different situations
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Preface; The quest for gentility in China: An introduction; Part I Event; 1 Gentility in transition: Travels, novels, and the new guixiu; 2 Washing the wutong tree: Garden culture as an expression of women's gentility in the late Ming; 3 Gentility in a Shanghai literary salon of the 1930s; 4 Negotiating gentility: The Banana Garden poetry club in seventeenth-century China; Part II Reflection; 5 Female gentility in transition and transmission: Mother-daughter ties in Ming/Qing China
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Virtuous surrogates: Moral action and substitution in the case of Yang Jisheng7 Sartorial modesty and genteel ideals in the late Ming; 8 The aspirant genteel: The courtesan and her image problem; Part III Transmission; 9 Textbooks on an aesthetic life in late Ming China; 10 Searching for gentility: The nineteenth-century fashion for the late Ming; 11 In spite of gentility: Women and men in Linglong (Elegance), a 1930s women's magazine; 12 The Chinese gentlewoman in the public gaze: Ling Shuhua in twentieth-century China and Britain; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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