Polygamy and sublime passion
Subtitle: sexuality in China on the verge of modernity
By: Keith McMahon.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Honolulu, Hawaii
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780824833763
Subjects: Polygamy -- China; Prostitution -- China; Concubinage -- China; Marriage -- China; China -- History -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the male consort of the remarkable woman; title: Sublime passion and the remarkable woman; title: Qing can be with one and only one; title: The otherworldliness of the courtesan; title: The love story and civilizational crisis; title: Passive polygyny in two kinds of man-child; title: Fleecing the customer in Shanghai brothels of the 1890s; title: Cultural destiny and polygynous love in Zou Tao's Shanghai dust; title: The polygynous politics of the modern Chinese man in nine-times cuckold; title: Conclusion : the post-polygynous future.