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The quest for gentility in China : negotiations beyond gender and class / ed. by Daria Berg and Chloe Starr

Berg, Daria, 1964- [Herausgeberin/-geber] ; Starr, Chloë, 1971- [Herausgeberin/-geber]

London [u.a.] : Routledge, 2007

XVI, 299 Seiten : Ill. ; 24 cm

Englisch

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

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

978-0-203-93823-2 ((ebk.) No price); 978-0-415-43586-4 ((hbk.) £75.00); 0-415-43586-2 ((hbk.) £75.00)

013799996

533124328

OCoLC: 836568216     

DS753.2

302.0951     Ähnliche Literatur

Basisklassifikation: 15.79 (China) <Geschichte> ; 15.08 (Sozialgeschichte) ; 71.31 (Geschlechter und ihr Verhalten)

*China ; Frau ; Soziale Klasse ; Geschlechterrolle ; Weiblichkeit ; Aufsatzsammlung      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Gentry -- China -- Conduct of life -- History ; China -- Social life and customs -- 960-1644 ; China -- Social life and customs -- 1644-1912 ; China -- Social life and customs -- 1912-1949

Gentry / China / Conduct of life / History ; China / Social life and customs / 960-1644 ; China / Social life and customs / 1644-1912 ; China / Social life and customs / 1912-1949

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