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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... example, that the metaphor of 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 ...
... example, how the “impersonator” (shih ; literally “corpse”) becomes possessed by the spirits during a ceremony intended to appease them.36 One such hymn adds, I have a lucky guest. The core of my heart loves him. The bells and drums are ...
... example, can now easily be seen as a metaphor for the yearning of a worshipper for his goddess. For we remember that the bells and drums, which are virtually ubiquitous in the invocational literature, appear in the final stanza of 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 |