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Sex, culture and modernity in China : medical science and the construction of sexual identities in the early Republican Period / Frank Dikotter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dikötter, Frank.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex customs--China--History.
- Sex customs.
- Sexual ethics--China--History.
- Sexual ethics.
- Sex role--China--History.
- Sex role.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (243 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 1995.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- With the disintegration of Confucian cosmology after the fall of the imperial system in China, medical science was introduced as a foundation for social order. This study traces the emergence of new sexual identities in this period.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- The passive sex: the naturalization of gender distinctions
- Sexual desire and human procreation
- "Four hundred million sublings": the regulation of "population"
- "Civlization is syphilization": the cultural meanings of "disease"
- The cultural construction of "youth"
- Epilogue: the regulation of sexuality in the People's Republic
- Bibliography
- Character list
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 988-220-273-X
- OCLC:
- 710061546
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