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Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China (Paperback, 1 New Ed)
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Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China (Paperback, 1 New Ed)
Series: Law, Society, and Culture in China
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This study of the regulation of sexuality in the Qing dynasty
explores the social context for sexual behavior criminalized by the
state, arguing that the eighteenth century in China was a time of
profound change in sexual matters. During this time, the basic
organizing principle for state regulation of sexuality shifted away
from status, under which members of different groups had long been
held to distinct standards of familial and sexual morality. In its
place, a new regime of gender mandated a uniform standard of sexual
morality and criminal liability across status boundaries—all
people were expected to conform to gender roles defined in terms of
marriage. This shift in the regulation of sexuality, manifested in
official treatment of charges of adultery, rape, sodomy, widow
chastity, and prostitution, represented the imperial state’s
efforts to cope with disturbing social and demographic changes.
Anachronistic status categories were discarded to accommodate a
more fluid social structure, and the state initiated new efforts to
enforce rigid gender roles and thus to shore up the peasant family
against a swelling underclass of single, rogue males outside the
family system. These men were demonized as sexual predators who
threatened the chaste wives and daughters (and the young sons) of
respectable households, and a flood of new legislation targeted
them for suppression. In addition to presenting official and
judicial actions regarding sexuality, the book tells the story of
people excluded from accepted patterns of marriage and household
who bonded with each other in unorthodox ways (combining sexual
union with resource pooling and fictive kinship) to satisfy a range
of human needs. This previously invisible dimension of Qing social
practice is brought into sharp focus by the testimony, gleaned from
local and central court archives, of such marginalized people as
peasants, laborers, and beggars.
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