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Polygamy and sublime passion : sexuality in China on the verge of modernity / Keith McMahon.
LIBRA HQ981 .M36 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McMahon, Keith.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Polygamy--China.
- Polygamy.
- Prostitution--China.
- Prostitution.
- Concubinage.
- China.
- Concubinage--China.
- Marriage--China.
- Marriage.
- China--History--Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 215 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2010]
- Contents:
- Introduction : the male consort of the remarkable woman
- Sublime passion and the remarkable woman
- Qing can be with one and only one
- The otherworldliness of the courtesan
- The love story and civilizational crisis
- Passive polygyny in two kinds of man-child
- Fleecing the customer in Shanghai brothels of the 1890s
- Cultural destiny and polygynous love in Zou Tao's Shanghai dust
- The polygynous politics of the modern Chinese man in Nine-times cuckold
- Conclusion : the postpolygynous future.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780824833763
- 0824833767
- OCLC:
- 429227211
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