Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Dedication v
3. Contents vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Chinese Dynasties and Historical Periods xi
6. Introduction: Writing the History of Sexuality in China 1
7. 1. Polygyny and Its Discontents: A Key to Understanding Traditional Chinese Society 16
8. 2. Between Topics and Sources: Researching the History of Sexuality in Imperial China 34
9. 3. The Pornographic Doctrine of a Loyalist Ming Novel: Social Decline and Sexual Disorder in Preposterous Words (Guwangyan) 50
10. 4. Bertrand Russell and Ellen Key in China: Individualism, Free Love, and Eugenics in the May Fourth Era 76
11. 5. “A Problem of Glands and Secretions”: Female Criminality, Murder, and Sexuality in Republican China 99
12. 6. Changing Sex in the Urban Press: Scientific Modernity and the Shaping of Transsexual Subjects in Twentieth-Century China 125
13. 7. A Reparative Return to “Queer Socialism”: Male Same-Sex Desire in the Cultural Revolution 142
14. 8. The Irony of Size: Male Smallness and the Rise of China 163
15. 9. Sex and Work: HIV/AIDS and Elite Masculinity in Contemporary China 188
16. Glossary of Chinese Characters 205
17. Bibliography 211
18. List of Contributors 245
19. Index 249