The quest for gentility in China
Subtitle: negotiations beyond gender and class
By: edited by Daria Berg and Chloe Starr.
Contributors: Berg, Daria, 1964-; Starr, Chloe, 1971-
Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia -- 47
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415435864; 9780203938232
Subjects: 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
Notes: "First published 2006 by Routledge ... Abingdon Oxon ... "

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Event; title: Gentility in transition: travels, novels, and the new guixiu / Ellen Widmer; title: Washing the wutong tree: garden culture as an expression of women's gentility in the late Ming / Alison Hardie; title: Gentility in a Shanghai literary salon of the 1930s / Michel Hockx; title: Negotiating gentility: the Banana Garden Poetry Club in seventeenth-century China / Daria Berg; title: Part II: Reflection; title: Female gentility in transition and transmission: mother-daughter ties in Ming/Qing China / Ping-chen Hsiung; title: Virtuous surrogates: moral action and substitution in the case of Yang Jisheng / Kenneth Hammond; title: Sartorial modesty and genteel ideals in the late Ming / Sarah Dauncey; title: The aspirant genteel: the courtesan and her image problem / Chloe Starr; title: Part III: Transmission; title: Textbooks on an aesthetic life in late Ming China / Oki Yasushi; title: Searching for gentility: the nineteenth-century fashion for the late Ming / Anne Gerritsen; title: In spite of gentility: women and men in Linglong, a 1930s women's magazine / Barbara Mittler; title: The Chinese gentlewoman in the public gaze: Ling Shuhua in twentieth-century China and Britain / Jeesoon Hong.