The culture of sex in ancient China
- 作者: Goldin, Paul Rakita,
- 出版: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press ©2002.
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (viii, 231 pages).
- 標題: SELF-HELP Sexual Instruction. , Sex and history. , Sex and history China. , Sexualité et histoire , HISTORY Asia -- China. , China Civilization -- 221 B.C.-960 A.D. , Civilization , Seksualiteit. , Littérature chinoise 221 av. J.-C.-960 -- Histoire et critique. , Chinese literature , Chine Civilisation -- 221 av. J.-C.-960. , Civilisation , China Civilization -- To 221 B.C. , Sex in literature. , Littérature chinoise , Littérature chinoise Jusqu'à 221 av. J.-C. -- Histoire et critique. , History. , Chine , China , Human Sexuality. , Criticism, interpretation, etc. , History , Civilization. , Chinese literature 221 B.C.-960 A.D. -- History and criticism. , Electronic books. , History and criticism. , Chinese literature. , To 1500 , Histoire et critique. , SELF-HELP , HISTORY , Chinese literature To 221 B.C. -- History and criticism. , Sexualité et histoire Chine. , PSYCHOLOGY , Sex China -- History -- To 1500. , Sexual Instruction. , Sex and history , Sex. , Sex , Chine Civilisation -- Jusqu'à 221 av. J.-C. , Sexualité dans la littérature. , China. , PSYCHOLOGY Human Sexuality.
- ISBN: 0824864654 , 9780824864651
- ISBN: 0824824059 , 9780824824051 , 0824824822 , 9780824824822
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- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-223) and index.
- 摘要: The subject of sex was central to early Chinese thought. Discussed openly and seriously as a fundamental topic of human speculation, it was an important source of imagery and terminology that informed the classical Chinese conception of social and political relationships. This sophisticated and long-standing tradition, however, has been all but neglected by modern historians. In The Culture of Sex in Ancient China, Paul Rakita Goldin addresses central issues in the history of Chinese attitudes toward sex and gender from 500 B.C. to A.D. 400. A survey of major pre-imperial sources, including some of the most revered and influential texts in the Chinese tradition, reveals the use of the image of copulation as a metaphor for various human relations, such as those between a worshiper and his or her deity or a ruler and his subjects. In his examination of early Confucian views of women, Goldin notes that, while contradictions and ambiguities existed in the articulation of these views, women were nevertheless regarded as full participants in the Confucian project of self-transformation. He goes on to show how assumptions concerning the relationship of sexual behavior to political activity (assumptions reinforced by the habitual use of various literary tropes discussed earlier in the book) led to increasing attempts to regulate sexual behavior throughout the Han dynasty. Following the fall of the Han, this ideology was rejected by the aristocracy, who continually resisted claims of sovereignty made by impotent emperors in a succession of short-lived dynasties. Erudite and immensely entertaining, this study of intellectual conceptions of sex and sexuality in China will be welcomed by students and scholars of early China and by those with an interest in the comparative development of ancient cultures.
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The subject of sex was central to early Chinese thought. Discussed openly and seriously as a fundamental topic of human speculation, it was an important source of imagery and terminology that informed the classical Chinese conception of social and political relationships. This sophisticated and long-standing tradition, however, has been all but neglected by modern historians. In The Culture of Sex in Ancient China, Paul Rakita Goldin addresses central issues in the history of Chinese attitudes toward sex and gender from 500 B.C. to A.D. 400. A survey of major pre-imperial sources, including some of the most revered and influential texts in the Chinese tradition, reveals the use of the image of copulation as a metaphor for various human relations, such as those between a worshiper and his or her deity or a ruler and his subjects. In his examination of early Confucian views of women, Goldin notes that, while contradictions and ambiguities existed in the articulation of these views, women were nevertheless regarded as full participants in the Confucian project of self-transformation. He goes on to show how assumptions concerning the relationship of sexual behavior to political activity (assumptions reinforced by the habitual use of various literary tropes discussed earlier in the book) led to increasing attempts to regulate sexual behavior throughout the Han dynasty. Following the fall of the Han, this ideology was rejected by the aristocracy, who continually resisted claims of sovereignty made by impotent emperors in a succession of short-lived dynasties. Erudite and immensely entertaining, this study of intellectual conceptions of sex and sexuality in China will be welcomed by students and scholars of early China and by those with an interest in the comparative development of ancient cultures.
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