Polygamy and sublime passion sexuality in China on the verge of modernity /

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Main Author: McMahon, Keith
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.