Polygamy and sublime passion : sexuality in China on the verge of modernity /

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For centuries of Chinese history, polygamy and prostitution were closely linked practices that legitimized the 'polygynous male, ' the man with multiple sexual partners. Despite their strict hierarchies, these practices also addressed fundamental antagonisms in sexual relations in serious...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McMahon, Keith (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, ©2010.
Subjects:
1644-1912
Geschichte 1600-1912.
Polygamy > China.
Prostitution > China.
Concubinage > China.
Marriage > China.
Polygamie > Chine.
Mariage > Chine.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Marriage & Family.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Concubinage.
Marriage.
Polygamy.
Prostitution.
Qing Dynasty (China)
China > History > Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.
Chine > Histoire > 1644-1912 (Dynastie des Qing)
China.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the male consort of the remarkable woman
  • Sublime passion and the remarkable woman
  • Qing can be with one and only one
  • The otherworldliness of the courtesan
  • The love story and civilizational crisis
  • Passive polygyny in two kinds of man-child
  • Fleecing the customer in Shanghai brothels of the 1890s
  • Cultural destiny and polygynous love in Zou Tao's Shanghai dust
  • The polygynous politics of the modern Chinese man in Nine-times cuckold
  • Conclusion : the postpolygynous future.

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