The Culture of Sex in Ancient China by Paul Ratika Goldin

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This title addresses central issues in the history of chinese attitudes towards sex and gender from 500BC to AD 400. It reveals the use of the image of copulation as a metaphor for various human relations in some of the most revered and influential texts in the Chinese tradition.

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The Culture of Sex in Ancient China by Paul Ratika Goldin

This study of intellectual conceptions of sex and sexuality in China will be welcomed by students and scholars of early China and by those with an interest in the comparative development of ancient cultures.
Paul R. Goldin, (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1996), is Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including The Art of Chinese Philosophy (2020), Confucianism (2011), After Confucius (2005), The Culture of Sex in Ancient China (2001), and Rituals of the Way: The Philosophy of Xunzi (1999).
Elisa Levi Sabattini (Ph.D. Ca' Foscari University at Venice and INALCO at Paris 2006), was Associate Professor of Chinese Philology at L'Orientale University of Naples. She is currently Senior Research Associate at Ruhr Universitü¾†”¼t Bochum. Her research focuses on intellectual history, Chinese thought and aesthetic practice of Early China. She is author of several articles and book chapters, both in English and Italian, published for international peer-reviewed journals. She is co-editor together with Paul R. Goldin of Lu Jia's New Discourses: A Political Manifesto from the Early Han Dynasty (Brill, 2020).
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ISBN 13 9780824824822
ISBN 10 0824824822
Title The Culture of Sex in Ancient China
Author Paul Ratika Goldin
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher University of Hawai'i Press
Year published 2001-10-30
Number of pages 216
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