Sexuality in China
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Sexuality in China

Histories of Power and Pleasure

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Sexuality in China

Histories of Power and Pleasure

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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 perspectives by addressing diverse topics such as polygamy, pornography, free love, eugenics, sexology, crimes of passion, homosexuality, intersexuality, transsexuality, masculine anxiety, sex work, and HIV/AIDS. Following a loose chronological sequence, the chapters examine revealing historical moments in which human desire and power dynamics came into play. Collectively, the contributors undertake a necessary historiographic intervention by reconsidering Western categorizations and exploring Chinese understandings of sexuality and erotic orientation.

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Publisher
University of Washington Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9780295743486
Topic
History
Subtopic
Chinese History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. SEXUALITY IN CHINA
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. CONTENTS
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Chinese Dynasties and Historical Periods
  9. Introduction: Writing the History of Sexuality in China
  10. 1. Polygyny and Its Discontents: A Key to Understanding Traditional Chinese Society
  11. 2. Between Topics and Sources: Researching the History of Sexuality in Imperial China
  12. 3. The Pornographic Doctrine of a Loyalist Ming Novel: Social Decline and Sexual Disorder in Preposterous Words (Guwangyan)
  13. 4. Bertrand Russell and Ellen Key in China: Individualism, Free Love, and Eugenics in the May Fourth Era
  14. 5. “A Problem of Glands and Secretions”: Female Criminality, Murder, and Sexuality in Republican China
  15. 6. Changing Sex in the Urban Press: Scientific Modernity and the Shaping of Transsexual Subjects in Twentieth-Century China
  16. 7. A Reparative Return to “Queer Socialism”: Male Same-Sex Desire in the Cultural Revolution
  17. 8. The Irony of Size: Male Smallness and the Rise of China
  18. 9. Sex and Work: HIV/AIDS and Elite Masculinity in Contemporary China
  19. Glossary of Chinese Characters
  20. Bibliography
  21. List of Contributors
  22. Index