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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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McMahon, Keith.
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Polygamy -- China.
Prostitution -- China.
Concubinage -- China.
Marriage -- China.
China -- History -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.
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Polygamy and sublime...
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Polygamy and sublime passion : sexuality in China on the verge of modernity / Keith McMahon.
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McMahon, Keith.
Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2010.
Subjects
Polygamy -- China.
Prostitution -- China.
Concubinage -- China.
Marriage -- China.
China -- History -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.
ISBN:
9780824833763 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0824833767 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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vii, 215 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
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