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

• 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.

Ämnesord

Traditioner  (sao)

Vardagsliv  (sao)

Gentry  -- China -- Conduct of life -- History. (LCSH)

Lågadel  -- Umgängeskonst -- historia -- Kina (sao)

Manners and customs  (LCSH)

China  -- Social life and customs -- 960-1644. (LCSH)

China  -- Social life and customs -- 1644-1912. (LCSH)

China  -- Social life and customs -- 1912-1949. (LCSH)

Kina  -- historia (sao)

960-1644 (Kina)  (sao)

1912-1949 (Republiken Kina, Kina)  (sao)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Ku-oea Allmän socialhistoria: Kina

Klassifikation

DS753.2 (LCC)

302.0951 (DDC)

Ku-oea (kssb/8)