The Culture of Sex in Ancient ChinaUniversity of Hawaii Press, 2001年10月31日 - 544 頁 The subject of sex was central to early Chinese thought. Discussed openly and seriously as a fundamental topic of human speculation, it was an important source of imagery and terminology that informed the classical Chinese conception of social and political relationships. This sophisticated and long-standing tradition, however, has been all but neglected by modern historians. In The Culture of Sex in Ancient China, Paul Rakita Goldin addresses central issues in the history of Chinese attitudes toward sex and gender from 500 B.C. to A.D. 400. |
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... Lord Chao is represented by the jilted girl and consequently that he brought on his own fate by allowing a mere minister to anoint feudal lords. But saying that Lord Chao is culpable for his own indifference is analogous to blaming the ...
... lord is rejoicing, happy and content.29 This invocation30 employs many of the same images as “The Deer Cries.” After arousing the divinity with organs and citherns, the priestess then offers her body. Ling , “the enchantress,” is a ...
... lord or god, and fan-hui , “luxuriously they combine,” can refer either to the Five Tones of the same line—or to the enchantress and her spirit-lover in the middle of the hall. Another hierogamous union appears in an ancient myth. When ...
... lords are reverent. They prepare the dishes, very many, for the guest, for the visitor. At the end of the ceremony, the “impersonator” rises and the spirits, satiated, depart. The ritual ceremony is already completed; The bells and ...
... Lord Chao of Chin [r. 744–738 B.C .]” .41 Supposedly, that lord had all the materials of good government at his disposal, but because he did not “cultivate the Way” , he ended in ruin. In his failure to sprinkle and sweep his courtyards ...
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2 Women and Sex Roles | 48 |
3 Sex Politics and Ritualization in the Early Empire | 75 |
Privacy and Other Revolutionary Notions at the End of the Han | 111 |
Notes | 123 |
Bibliography | 193 |
Index | 225 |
About the Author | 232 |