Cover13; -- Title Page -- Verso -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Passive Sex: The Naturalization of Gender Distinctions -- Chapter 3. Sexual Desire and Human Procreation -- Chapter 4. 'Four Hundred Million Siblings': The Regulation of 'Population' -- Chapter 5. 'Civilization is Syphilization': The Cultural Meanings of 'Disease' -- Chapter 6. The Cultural Construction of 'Youth' -- Chapter 7. Epilogue: The Regulation of Sexuality in the People's Republic -- Bibliography -- Character List -- Index
Summary
With the disintegration of Confucian cosmology after the fall of the imperial system in China, medical science was introduced as a foundation for social order. This study traces the emergence of new sexual identities in this period
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-221) and index
