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.
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