The quest for gentility in China : negotiations beyond gender and class / edited by Daria Berg and C...
The quest for gentility in China : negotiations beyond gender and class / edited by Daria Berg and C...
The quest for gentility in China : negotiations beyond gender and class / edited by Daria Berg and Chloe Starr.
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Publisher
London : Routledge, 2007.
Date
2007.
Call Numbers
N302.0951/ 1
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Language
English
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Physical content
xvi, 299 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
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 gentilit...
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Publisher
London : Routledge, 2007.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2007.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
Twelve international leading scholars present multi-disciplinary approaches to explore the images, artefacts and transmission of gentility across the centuries in historical and literary situations, popular and high culture, private and official documents, poetry clubs, garden culture and aesthetic guidebooks. This volume changes the ways we look a...
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The quest for gentility in China : negotiations beyond gender and class / edited by Daria Berg and Chloe Starr.
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Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; 47.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Other version (online)
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N302.0951/ 1
Record Identifier
74VM8zqlqLpb
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VM8zqlqLpb
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ISBN
9780203938232 (ebk.) :
0415435862 (hbk.) :
9780415435864 (hbk.) :
DDC
302.0951
MMS ID
991000132529702626
