Sex, Culture and Modernity in China:Medical Science and the Construction of Sexual Identities in the Early Republican Period
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- Categories:Historical Study
- Language:English(Translation Services Available)
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- Pages:242
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Description
Although new categories of analysis, such as ‘population’, ‘race’, ‘sex’, ‘woman’ and ‘youth’ were introduced to early Republican China from abroad, their reception and adaptation were founded on cultural reorientations in the 17th and 18th centuries. Instead of describing the rise of normative naturalism as a derivative discourse from ‘the West’, this book recognizes that the roots of modernizing representations may have had to be sought in a rich and diverse past in China itself.
This study is based on medical and lay texts such as handbooks, marriage guides and introductions to physiology and sexual hygiene. The epilogue shows how the sexual identities invented early this century are still in place in China today.