7. Modernizing Sex, Sexing Modernity: Prostitution in Early-Twentieth-Century Shanghai

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Foreword xi
5. Introduction: Theorizing Femininities and Masculinities 1
6. PART I . GENDER AND THE LAW (QING DYNASTY)
7. Introduction 43
8. 1. Femininity in Flux: Gendered Virtue and Social Conflict in the Mid–Qing Courtroom 47
9. 2. Dangerous Males, Vulnerable Males, and Polluted Males: The Regulation of Masculinity in Qing Dynasty Law 67
10. PART II . IDEALS OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY (MID–QING DYNASTY AND EARLY REPUBLICAN ERA)
11. Introduction 89
12. 3. Grooming a Daughter for Marriage: Brides and Wives in the Mid–Qing Period 93
13. 4. “The Truths I Have Learned”: Nationalism, Family Reform, and Male Identity in China’s New Culture Movement, 1915–1923 120
14. PART III . GENDER IN LITERARY TRADITIONS (MAY FOURTH ERA TO REFORM ERA)
15. Introduction 145
16. 5. Invention and Intervention: The Making of a Female Tradition in Modern Chinese Literature 149
17. 6. The Self Loving the Self: Men and Connoisseurship in Modern Chinese Literature 175
18. PART IV . DANGEROUS WOMEN AND DANGEROUS MEN (LATE MING DYNASTY TO EARLY COMMUNIST PERIOD)
19. Introduction 195
20. 7. Modernizing Sex, Sexing Modernity: Prostitution in Early-Twentieth-Century Shanghai 199
21. 8. Approximations of Chinese Bandits: Perverse Rebels, Romantic Heroes, or Frustrated Bachelors? 226
22. PART V . THE GENDER OF REBELS (CULTURAL REVOLUTION)
23. Introduction 251
24. 9. Maoist Mappings of Gender: Reassessing the Red Guards 255
25. 10. “Little Brothers” in the Cultural Revolution: The Worker Rebels of Shanghai 269
26. PART VI . BLOOD, QI, AND THE GENDERED BODY (QING DYNASTY AND REFORM ERA)
27. Introduction 287
28. 11. Blood, Body, and Gender: Medical Images of the Female Condition in China, 1600 –1850 291
29. 12. Embodying Qi and Masculinities in Post-Mao China 315
30. PART VII . SHIFTING CONTEXTS OF GENDER AND SEXUALITY (REFORM ERA)
31. Introduction 331
32. 13. Past, Perfect or Imperfect: Changing Images of the Ideal Wife 335
33. 14. Proper Men and Proper Women: Parental Affection in the Chinese Family 361
34. PART VIII . GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND ETHNICITY (REFORM ERA)
35. Introduction 381
36. 15. Gender and Internal Orientalism in China 385
37. 16. Tradition and the Gender of Civility 412
38. Afterword: Putting Gender at the Center 435
39. Contributors 447
40. Index 451