The Chinese Narcotic Addict in the United States

Ball, John C.; Lau, M.

doi:10.1093/sf/45.1.68

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“…In the last few decades, while many Chinese emigrants have been able to achieve unification of their families abroad, some became stranded overseas when land reform in China destroyed their dream of returning to their native village to become landlords (Ball and Lau 1966). The extent of institutionalized homophilic responses to family separation in the present-day People's Republic of China is not known, though they persist in Hong Kong and some overseas colonies.…”

Section: Divided Families On Seaboardmentioning

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Homosexuality in chinese culture

Lau¹,

1989

Cult Med Psych

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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.

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Section: Divided Families On Seaboardmentioning

confidence: 99%