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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... China from roughly 500 B.C. to A.D. 400. Ancient Chinese writers discussed sex openly and seriously as one of the most important topics of human speculation. This sophisticated and long-standing tradition has been almost entirely ...
... described in chapter 1, sexuality was now conceived as the most telling indication of one's political intentions. Consequently, unregulated or illicit sexual activity was associated 2 The Culture of Sex in Ancient China.
... ancient Chinese case. One of the most basic ideas in the history of sexuality is constructionism, which holds that our own notions of sexuality and identity are a function of our culture and society—our discourse, as it is sometimes ...
... inescapable here. “The Orient” never made any sense as a geographical unit except as one that was available to Europe in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries for exploitation and 4 The Culture of Sex in Ancient China.
... ancient Chinese “sexual habits were healthy and normal” and that “pathologia sexualis” was not largely represented. As van Gulik himself declares, one of the main purposes of his Sexual Life in Ancient China was to refute the idea that ...
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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 |