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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... spirit was congenial to classical readers. They were well aware, for example, that the metaphor of copulation was often employed in liturgies sung by priests and priestesses in rituals intended to attract ancestral spirits. One poem in ...
... spirit might descend and sojourn.25 Hierogamous unions like those implied in “The Deer Cries” are described in greater detail in the so-called Lyrics of Ch'u (Ch'u-tz'u ), a later collection named after the great warlike state that ...
... spirit-lover in the middle of the hall. Another hierogamous union appears in an ancient myth. When Yü set the floodwaters in order, opening a passage to Mount Huan-yüan, he turned into a bear. He said to a woman of T'u-shan, “When I ...
... spirits during a ceremony intended to appease them.36 One such hymn adds, I have a lucky guest. The core of my heart ... spirits, satiated, depart. The ritual ceremony is already completed; The bells and drums have already given their ...
... spirit-guardians38 suddenly go back. ) (Mao 209: “Ch'u-tz'u” The boundaries and fields are uniform. The mass of millet is abundant. The harvest of the great-grandson is used to make wine and food. Confer on me, impersonated guest, a ...
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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 |