Daria Berg is Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham. She has published extensively on Ming/Qing and post-Mao Chinese cultural history and literature, including Carnival in China: A Reading of the Xingshi yinyuan zhuan (2002). She recently edited Reading China: Fiction, History and the Dynamics of Discourse. Essays in Honour of Professor Glen Dudbridge (2007). Chloë Starr is a Departmental Lecturer in Classical Chinese at the University of Oxford. She works on text and narrative: her most recent publication is Red-light Novels of the Late Qing (2007) and she is currently editing a volume on Chinese biblical hermeneutics.
The Quest for Gentility in China: An Introduction Part 1: Event 1.
Gentility in Transition: Travels, Novels, and the New Guixiu Ellen Widmer
2. Washing the Wutong Tree: Garden Culture as an Expression of Women's
Gentility in the Late Ming Alison Hardie 3. Gentility in a Shanghai
Literary Salon of the 1930s Michel Hockx 4. Negotiating Gentility: The
Banana Garden Poetry Club in Seventeenth-Century China Daria Berg Part 2:
Reflection 5. Female Gentility in Transition and Transmission:
Mother-Daughter Ties in Ming/Qing China Ping-chen Hsiung 6. Virtuous
Surrogates: Moral Action and Substitution in the Case of Yang Jisheng
Kenneth Hammond 7. Sartorial Modesty and Genteel Ideals in the Late Ming
Sarah Dauncey 8. The Aspirant Genteel: The Courtesan and Her Image Problem
Chloë Starr Part 3: Transmission 9. Textbooks on an Aesthetic Life in Late
Ming China Oki Yasushi 10. Searching for Gentility: The Nineteenth-Century
Fashion for the Late Ming Anne Gerritsen 11. In Spite of Gentility: Women
and Men in Linglong, a 1930s Women's Magazine Barbara Mittler 12. The
Chinese Gentlewoman in the Public Gaze: Ling Shuhua in Twentieth-Century
China and Britain Jeesoon Hong
