1st Edition
The Quest for Gentility in China Negotiations Beyond Gender and Class
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
Biography
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.
