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Reinventing Licentiousness Pornography and Modern China
Author
Title
Reinventing Licentiousness Pornography and Modern China / Y. Yvon Wang.
ISBN
9781501752995
1501752995
9781501752971
1501752979
9781501752988
Publication
Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©2021.
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages cm)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
"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.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 05, 2021
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 même chose: reinventing licentiousness for a new age.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
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