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" Polygamy and sublime passion : "
Keith McMahon.
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BL
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992944
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b747314
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McMahon, Keith
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Polygamy and sublime passion : : sexuality in China on the verge of modernity /\ Keith McMahon.
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Honolulu :: University of Hawaiʻi Press,, ©2010.
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1 online resource (vii, 215 pages)
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0824837649
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: 0824870808
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: 1441671447
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: 9781441671448
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0824833767
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9780824833763
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction : the male consort of the remarkable woman -- Sublime passion and the remarkable woman -- Qing can be with one and only one -- The otherworldliness of the courtesan -- The love story and civilizational crisis -- Passive polygyny in two kinds of man-child -- Fleecing the customer in Shanghai brothels of the 1890s -- Cultural destiny and polygynous love in Zou Tao's Shanghai dust -- The polygynous politics of the modern Chinese man in Nine-times cuckold -- Conclusion : the postpolygynous future.
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For centuries of Chinese history, polygamy and prostitution were closely linked practices that legitimized the 'polygynous male, ' the man with multiple sexual partners. Despite their strict hierarchies, these practices also addressed fundamental antagonisms in sexual relations in serious and constructive ways. Qing fiction abounds in stories of female resistance and superiority. Women - main wives, concubines, and prostitutes - were adept at exerting control and gaining status for themselves, while men indulged in elaborate fantasies about female power. This book introduces a new concept, 'passive polygamy, ' to explain the unusual number of Qing stories in which women take charge of a man's desires, turning him into an instrument of female will.
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Concubinage-- China.
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Marriage-- China.
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Polygamy-- China.
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Prostitution-- China.
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Concubinage.
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Marriage.
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Polygamy.
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Prostitution.
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Qing Dynasty (China)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Sociology-- Marriage Family.
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China, History, Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.
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China.
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306.84/23095109034
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HQ981.M36 2010eb
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