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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... Traditional commentators point out that Chiang and Tzu are the surnames of the rulers of Ch'i and Sung, respectively.5 The point here seems to be that there are other fish in the river. Just as one must be willing to eat fishes other ...
... traditional interpretation, which invokes a political significance to the poem that a casual reader could hardly have surmised. The oldest critical utterance is simply that “'The Crafty Youth' criticizes indifference” .6 The orthodox ...
... traditional commentators did not feel that one had understood a poem in the Odes until one could elucidate its moral significance—and for poems like “The Crafty Youth,” fulfilling that mission requires a liberal dose of creative reading ...
... traditional literary criticism refers to as an “arousal” (hsing ), a natural image arousing the emotions and introducing the theme that is to follow.22 As we have seen, the image of eating portends sexual activity in these poems, and ...
... the feast for the “lucky guest” can discern many more instances of hierogamy in the Odes even where traditional commentators do not. Oh, the red-lacquered bows are unbent. We receive and store. 32 Imagery of Copulation 15.
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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 |