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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... males are hard and impregnable, and the two sexes must be assigned duties commensurate with this basic difference. Methods of War , by Sun Pin .), for example, divides all fortresses into “male” and “female,” depending on how easily ...
... male and 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 ...
... male had to make sure that the female reached orgasm and emitted her yin-ch'i. This is why so many sex manuals—which were written exclusively for men—go to great lengths to counsel the reader on the art of pleasing women sexually. In ...
... males who kept them. As we shall see, there were other, less reifying images of women as well; nevertheless, it was inconceivable for anyone to consider sexual relations between women as an issue with social ramifications or as a sign ...
... male and 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 ...
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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 |