Sexuality in China Histories of Power & Pleasure

"The concept of sexuality is problematic for Chinese scholars, since their language has no one word that literally translates the concept into Chinese. The history of sexuality, while an established field in critical inquiry, has most of its secondary literature revolving around Western Europe and North America. Chiang's book is the first to bring together the perspectives of scholars who have shaped the field of Chinese sexuality and who have not previously come together and synthesized their singular expertise over different periods of Chinese history. He also presents his book as a tool for teaching, offering a wide range of perspectives that reflect different temporal, regional, methodological, and theoretical strengths of the contributors. Its chapters introduce students to some of the major debates, sources, theories, and empirical contours of current historical work on Chinese sexuality, from the ancient times to the present. Chiang covers polygamy, pornography, free love, eugenics, sexology, crime of passion, homosexuality, intersexuality, transsexuality, masculine anxiety, sex work, and HIV/AIDS."--Provided by publisher.