Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China

Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China PDF Author: Matthew Harvey Sommer
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804745595
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 868

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Book Description
This study of the regulation of sexuality in the Qing dynasty explores the social context for sexual behavior criminalized by the state, showing how regulation shifted away from status to a new regime of gender that mandated a uniform standard of sexual morality and criminal liability for all people, regardless of their social status.