Passions of the Cut Sleeve

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"This is an important book . . . [that] may help to bring about a more accurate awareness among East Asian peoples that hatred of same-sex eroticism is a prejudice that is alien to their rich cultural heritage."

Autorentext
Bret Hinsch is professor of history at Fo Guang University, Yilan, Taiwan.

Klappentext
""This study sheds light on an important aspect of Chinese social history about which virtually nothing has been written previously, and does so with sensitivity, good sense, and grace. It opens entirely new vistas on the history of sexuality. Readers will learn new and unexpected things not only about Chinese history and homosexuality, but about human nature itself."—John Boswell, Yale University

Zusammenfassung
Drawing from dynastic histories, erotic novels, popular Buddhist tracts, love poetry, legal cases and joke books, "Passions of the Cut Sleeve" evokes the complex male homosexual tradition in China from the Bronze Age until its decline in recent times.

Inhalt
Note on Chinese Transliteration and Pronunciation
Table of Chinese Dynasties
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. Peaches, Pillows, and Politics
Zhou Dynasty (1122 to 256 B.C.)
2. Cut Sleeves as the Height of Fashion
Han Dynasty (206 B.C. to A.D. 220)
3. Powdered Jade
Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties (220 to 581)
4. Men of the Misty Moon
Tang and Song Dynasties (618 to 1279)
5. Popular Indulgence and Bawdy Satire
Homosexuality in Humor
6. Husbands, Boys, Servants
Yuan and Ming Dynasties (1264 to 1644)
7. Reflections at the End of a Tradition
Qing Dynasty (1644 to 1912)

Epilogue
Appendix: Lesbianism in Imperial China
Notes
Glossary of Chinese Terms
Bibliography
Index

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