What was sex like in China, from imperial times through the post-Mao era? The answer depends, of course, on who was having sex, where they were located in time and place, and what kind of familial, social, and political structures they participated in. This collection offers a variety of perspectives by addressing diverse topics such as polygamy, pornography, free love, eugenics, sexology, crimes of passion, homosexuality, intersexuality, transsexuality, masculine anxiety, sex work, and HIV/AIDS. Following a loose chronological sequence, the chapters examine revealing historical moments in which human desire and power dynamics came into play. Collectively, the contributors undertake a necessary historiographic intervention by reconsidering Western categorizations and exploring Chinese understandings of sexuality and erotic orientation.
About the author
Howard Chiang is assistant professor of history at the University of California, Davis. He is the editor of Transgender China (Palgrave Macmillan 2012), Psychiatry and Chinese History (Pickering & Chatto, 2014), and Historical Epistemology and the Making of Modern Chinese Medicine (Manchester University Press, 2015); and coeditor of Queer Sinophone Cultures (Routledge, 2013).
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