TY - BOOK AU - McMahon,Keith ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Polygamy and sublime passion: sexuality in China on the verge of modernity AV - HQ981 .M36 2010eb U1 - 306.84/23095109034 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Honolulu PB - University of Hawaiʻi Press KW - Polygamy KW - China KW - Prostitution KW - Concubinage KW - Marriage KW - History KW - Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10412278 ER -