Sex, Culture and Modernity in China: Medical Science and the Construction of Sexual Identities in the Early Republican Period by Frank Dikötter

Sex, Culture and Modernity in China: Medical Science and the Construction of Sexual Identities in the Early Republican Period

Frank Dikötter

200 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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With the disintegration of Confucian cosmology after the fall of the imperial system in China, medical science was introduced as an epistemological foundation for social order. The construction of sexuality as a dangerous drive which was thought t...

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