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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 -- 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 / Chloë Starr -- Textbooks on an aesthetic life in late Ming China / Yasushi Oki -- Searching for gentility : the nineteenth-century fashion for the late Ming / Anne Gerritsen -- In spite of gentility : women and men in Linglong (Elegance), a 1930s women's magazine / Barbara Mittler -- The Chinese gentlewoman in the public gaze : Ling Shuhua in twentieth-century China and Britain / Jeesoon Hong.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [270]-285) and index.
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