Sexuality in China : histories of power & pleasure /

What was sex like in China, from imperial times through the post-Mao era? The answer depends, of course, on who was having sex, where they were located in time and place, and what kind of familial, social, and political structures they participated in. This collection offers a variety of perspective...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Chiang, Howard, 1983- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018]
Temas:
Sex > China > History.
Sex customs > China > History.
Sexualité > Chine > Histoire.
Vie sexuelle > Chine > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.
HISTORY / Asia / China
Sex
Sex customs
Sexualverhalten
China
History
Aufsatzsammlung.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: writing the history of sexuality in China
  • Polygyny and its discontents: a key to understanding traditional Chinese society
  • Between topics and sources: researching the history of sexuality in Imperial China
  • The pornographic doctrine of a loyalist Ming novel: social decline and sexual disorder in preposterous words (Guwangyan)
  • Bertrand Russell and Ellen Key in China: individualism, free love, and eugenics in the May Fourth era
  • "A problem of glands and secretions": female criminality, murder, and sexuality in Republican China
  • Changing sex in the urban press: scientific modernity and the shaping of transsexual subjects in twentieth-century China
  • A reparative return to "queer socialism": male same-sex desire in the cultural revolution
  • The irony of size: male smallness and the rise of China
  • Sex and work: HIV/AIDS and elite masculinity in contemporary China
  • Glossary of Chinese characters
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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