Polygamy and sublime passion
McMahon, Keith.
Polygamy and sublime passion sexuality in China on the verge of modernity / [electronic resource] : Keith McMahon. - Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2010. - vii, 215 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Geschichte 1600-1912
Polygamy--China.
Prostitution--China.
Concubinage--China.
Marriage--China.
China--History--Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.
Electronic books.
HQ981 / .M36 2010eb
306.84/23095109034
Polygamy and sublime passion sexuality in China on the verge of modernity / [electronic resource] : Keith McMahon. - Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2010. - vii, 215 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Geschichte 1600-1912
Polygamy--China.
Prostitution--China.
Concubinage--China.
Marriage--China.
China--History--Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.
Electronic books.
HQ981 / .M36 2010eb
306.84/23095109034