Homosexuality in chinese culture

Abstract

Reviewing a book from the Pink Triangle Press of Hong Kong, and drawing upon other professional and personal resources, the authors of this review essay, both psychiatrists and graduates of the University of Hong Kong, present a digest and synopsis of material relating to homosexuality in Chinese culture. With illustrations from the royal palaces, upper class households, entertainment companies, scholars' conclaves, novels and fiction, seaboard populations, travellers, emigrants, socially marginal groups, closed institutions, and folk literature and dialects, a wide variety of homophilic relations is described. A section on the modern scene reviews clinical studies, legal and sociological data, seminar and commission reports, and news items. Although many Chinese names have been applied to the condition, homosexuality is not a culture-bound phenomenon. A basic question which emerges from this review is the extent to which human behavior is genderbound.

Male Writers of Dānměi Literature: An Analysis of Fēitiānyèxiáng

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Negotiating Anal Intercourse in Inter-Racial Gay Relationships in Hong Kong

“…In such a guise, homosexuality was more tolerated, especially when it did not interfere with a man's performance of his social and reproductive functions (Dikotter, 1995). Before the revolution in 1949, China had a long history of dynastic homosexuality (Hinsch, 1990;Lau and Ng, 1989;Ruan and Tsai, 1987;Van Gulick, 1961) and the transformation of homosexuality into a moral abhorrence was a more recent development in Chinese history. Such denial and oppression of homosexuality, however, later precipitated a political and administrative crisis for the colonial government in the case of Inspector MacLennan in 1980.…”

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