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.