Exploring an important feature of Chinese culture and civilization - the quest for gentility - over a long period of time (since the seventeenth century/late Ming period), this book examines its meanings and how it is transmitted and is displayed in different situations.
Exploring an important feature of Chinese culture and civilization - the quest for gentility - over a long period of time (since the seventeenth century/late Ming period), this book examines its meanings and how it is transmitted and is displayed in different situations.
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.
Inhaltsangabe
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
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
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