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Author Wang, Y. Yvon, 1986- author.

Title Reinventing licentiousness : pornography and modern China / Y. Yvon Wang
Published Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 26, 2021)
Subject 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
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Pornography
Pornography -- Social aspects.
Sexology.
China.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020016080
ISBN 9781501752988
9781501752995
1501752995
1501752987