By Giovanni Vitiello
ISBN-10: 0226857921
ISBN-13: 9780226857923
Delving into 300 years of chinese language literature, from the mid-sixteenth century to the mid-nineteenth, The Libertine’s Friend uncovers the complicated and interesting historical past of male gay and homosocial family members within the past due imperial period. Drawing relatively on neglected works of pornographic fiction, Giovanni Vitiello bargains a frank exploration of the significance of same-sex love and eroticism to the evolution of masculinity in China.
Vitiello’s tale unfolds chronologically, starting with the earliest resources on homoeroticism in pre-imperial China and concluding with a glance at advancements within the 20th century. alongside the best way, he identifies a few habitual characters—for instance, the libertine student, the chivalric hero, and the lustful monk—and sheds gentle on a suite of key matters, together with the social and felony barriers that regulated intercourse among males, the increase of male prostitution, and the aesthetics of male good looks. Drawing in this trove of fabric, Vitiello provides a old define of fixing notions of male homosexuality in China, revealing the indispensable half that same-sex wish has performed in its culture.
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