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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... female” and her welcoming softness. The “female” conquers by submitting, for, like water, she is formless and can adapt to any situation, whereas the rigid “male” cannot mold himself to the shape of the Way. However, it should be noted ...
... female. Chinese scholars have long pointed out that many of the famed liaisons of preimperial times would have violated the rituals that were set down in the Han. (The original point of such observations was to show that these rituals ...
... female jouissance (she was apparently working from a French translation of van Gulik's book, in which the term “jouissance” must have been used to denote orgasm) in terms that sound so Freudian and mystical as to obscure any remaining ...
... female in the Odes.3 In this poem, however, the pelican does not wet its beak; that is to say, it does not enter the water to catch fish. The boy, true to the image, does not consummate his courtship of the young girl, leaving her to ...
... female reproductive organs.23 She is entreating the “lucky guest” to show her how they do it in Chou. The lucky guest, moreover, is probably preternatural. To be sure, the poem is comprehensible as an unexceptional celebration of love ...
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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 |