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Chiang, Howard: Sexuality in China: Histories of Power and Pleasure by Jessica Imbach is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
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How did polygyny shape Chinese society? What role did sex play in the Republican-era discourse on eugenics? Why is the penis-size question in China also a question of cultural history? Answers to these and many other questions are provided in the short, but well-rounded volume "Sexuality in China: Histories of Power and Pleasure", edited by Howard Chiang and published in 2018 by the University of Washington Press. Conceived of as a textbook for introducing students to "the major debates, sources, theories, and empirical contours of current historical work on Chinese sexuality, from the ancient times to the present," (4) the volume offers its readers erudite engagements with such diverse topics as polygyny, eugenics, lesbian-on-lesbian crime, genital anxiety and HIV among China's urban male elite, to name just a few. Despite the volume's stronger focus on twentieth century Chinese history, each of the nine chapter take both China's sexual antiquity and modernity into account to explore how sexual experience makes history. Howard Chiang has made a name for himself as a leading authority on all things sex in China, which his win of the ICAS 2019 book prize for his latest monograph "Af
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- Author
- Jessica Imbach
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences