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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Paul R. Goldin. 1. Imagery. of. Copulation. Some of the oldest and most problematic love poems in the Chinese tradition are those contained in the anthology called Canon of Odes (Shih-ching ), one of the most venerable collections ...
... copulation—that is, of joining one human being with another. When you eat a fish, must it be a bream from the river? When you take a wife, must she be a Chiang of Ch'i? When you eat a fish, must it be a carp from the river? When you ...
... famous examples comes from the epithalamium that opens the entire collection, namely “The Kuan-ing Ospreys” (kuan is the sound of ospreys' characteristic call). “Kuan, kuan” [cry] the ospreys on the isle in the. Imagery of Copulation 11.
... copulation was often employed in liturgies sung by priests and priestesses in rituals intended to attract ancestral spirits. One poem in the collection is written in such a style. “Yu, yu,” the deer cries. It eats the artemisia in the ...
... copulating with him.31 Moreover, chiao-fu , the phrase that commentators generally take to mean “gorgeous robes,” can readily mean, “lewdly she longs for it.” Fu, we remember, appears in “The Kuan-ing Ospreys” as one of the verbs ...
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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 |