Though I will say that before anyone else would at all fuss there was also the actress that played Chiyo that was Japanese as well a slew of other actors/actresses.

And more than anything… why exactly does it matter the precise race of the actors/actresses? It is because people are so up in arms when there is a lack of “political correctness” or acknowledge of a race or culture THAT REINFORCES RACISM. How? Try closing your eyes for once when you talk to someone. Hear what they have to say. Culture is very important, but the person themselves as an individual means more.

And… are you a Japanese person living in Hungary? If not, you should be using your own name or something of Hungarian culture so you maintain political correctness and pride in who you are. Unless it’s all just acting. Then everything is okay.

Before qing dynasty.. han culture had a very rich and written, “flower and willow world” as opposed to the realm of the wind and moon.

the term geisha actually originates from official terms used in Imperial China

艺妓，乐妓，生妓， 名妓

and countless more.

of course you have your high ranking, lucky few..
and you have rock bottom.. but that variation is in every culture

“There actually is/was such thing as Chinese geisha.
however, they do not share the same name as the Japanese geisha, and the culture differs from their japanese counterpart.
The Chinese figures are a predecessor of the Japanese geisha.

In ancient china there was no stylized differentiation of classifying names due to the general degradation of women.

They were classified among the prostitutes and in fact a character in their name means prostitute today,

艺妓，乐妓，名妓 … etc.
Yiji, Yueji, Mingji

though in the ancient time, those terms did not only mean prostitute.. it was just a general offical name..
Some of them did not provided any sexual service.. and they still were recognized by that name.. the term during the more ancient periods, implied performer sometimes.

There are educational accounts and texts that have adopted the Japanese institution, geisha, for refering to a certain class of Chinese courtesan.

for in fact some services of these ancient chinese women were mostly delt with classical Chinese arts; calligraphy, painting, music, poetry etc.
and even spiritual, mutual understandings with clients of intellectual kind.

There are traces of this geisha tradition in a more primal form throughout the earliest dynasties of China.

Where they observe many values of humanity as they live extraordinary lives.
the accounts of the most famous of the Chinese geisha were recognized..

especially courtesans like 苏小小 Su Xiao Xiao from 502 Qi Dynasty China.

A woman who explored values of love, humanity and beauty.

They (like the Japanese) marked importance in that they did not prostitute themselves: “they sell their art, not their body.”
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The two cultures japan and China concidering geisha can not be congenially compared.

They are very different figures related to eachother,

Chinese Geisha no longer exist today because chinese cultural revolution wiped all traces of courtesan culture.. Japanese Geisha are not even allowed in China.

by “Nightingale”

Japanese geisha were in fact formed by the social strictures imposed because of confucianism.

which is minor to the fact that China has an even more notorious “geisha” idea for woman.

Your post is ill researched.