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This critical, multi-volume edition of Mao's writings is an indispensable guide to post-1949 Chinese politics and an invaluable research tool for anyone seeking to understand Communist rule in China.
The first detailed treatment of the Chinese homosexual tradition in any Western language, Passions of the Cut Sleeve shatters preconceptions and stereotypes. Gone is the image of the sternly puritanical Confucian as sole representative of Chinese sexual practices—and with it the justification for the modern Chinese insistence that homosexuality is a recent import from the decadent West. Rediscovering the male homosexual tradition in China provides a startling new perspective on Chinese society and adds richly to our understanding of homosexuality. Bret Hinsch's reconstruction of the Chinese homosexual past reveals unexpected scenes. An emperor on his deathbed turns over the seals of the em...
Hing Hing Ming reviews some of the major episodes of the Han Dynasty, from its founding by Liu Bang to the Lü Clan Disturbance and subsequent diplomatic overtures and military campaigns against the minor Chinese kingdoms, the Mongols, and Gojoseon (the ancient Korean Kingdom).
Shanghai's brothel is with the opening of the port and prosperity. Especially after the Taiping Army settled Jinling, east of Suzhou and Changzhou, south of Hangzhou, Suzhou and Zhejiang area of the rich families with money to Shanghai. Because Shanghai has a rental sector, the Taiping army also do not want to mess with, the rental sector is therefore unprecedented prosperity, so that it is difficult to find a house. The Chinese and foreign merchants who had the foresight to build their houses, sold or rented at a high price, and all of them made great profits. In addition, the Taiping Army banned prostitution, Suzhou, Changzhou, women have flocked to Shanghai, high-profile banner. The Bureau of Industry and Commerce of the Concession considered that the prostitution industry could not only generate a considerable amount of tax revenue, but also attract popularity, so it also strongly supported it.