Reinventing licentiousness pornography and modern China / Y. Yvon Wang.

Author/creator Wang, Y. Yvon, 1986-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoIthaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.
Description1 online resource
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Subjects
Pornography--Economic aspects. --China. --History. --19th century.
Pornography--Economic aspects. --China. --History. --20th century.
Pornography--Social aspects. --China. --History. --19th century.
Pornography--Social aspects. --China. --History. --20th century.
Sexology--China. --History.

Contents Challenging yin hierarchy: late imperial antecedents of the global modern pornographic turn -- Commodifying licentiousness in a time of flux: the material dimensions of global modern pornography -- The implied masturbator speaks: technologies and markets catalyze transformations in yin ideology -- Sex(ology) sells: the marketplace assimilates global modern innovations -- Plus c'est la m©®me chose: reinventing licentiousness for a new age.
Abstract "Uses Beijing police archives to present a social and intellectual history of the evolution of markets for and regulation of sexual depictions in today's China, focusing on media markets from c. 1880 to 1940 as a motor for cultural change and linking the Chinese case to global trends"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Wang, Y. Yvon, 1986- Reinventing licentiousness Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021. 9781501752971
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