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.
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The quest for gentility in China : negotiations beyond gender and class. ISBN 9780203938232. Published by Routledge in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
