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Subjects

Gentry, Social classes, china, Social life and customs, Conduct of life, History, China, social life and customs, Mœurs et coutumes, PSYCHOLOGY, Social Psychology, Manners and customs, Vornehmheit
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The Quest for Gentility in China: Negotiations Beyond Gender and Class (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia)
February 1, 2008, Routledge
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The quest for gentility in China: negotiations beyond gender and class
2007, Routledge
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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

"First published 2006 by Routledge ... Abingdon Oxon ... "

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia -- 47

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302.0951
Library of Congress
DS753.2 .Q47 2007, DS753.2.Q47 2007

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Pagination
p. cm.

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OL17992886M
ISBN 13
9780415435864, 9780203938232
LCCN
2007024988
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5696841

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