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Summary
"...a wealth of images in Chinese history and literature expresses a rich tradition of homosexuality dating from remote antiquity. Drawing from dynastic histories, erotic novels, popular Buddhist tracts, love poetry, legal caes, and joke books, Passions of the Cut Sleeve evokes the complex and fascinating male homosexual tradition in China from the Bronze Age until its decline in recent times." -- from the dust jacket. Includes an appendix on lesbianism in Imperial China.
Title
Passions of the Cut Sleeve: The Male Homosexual Tradition in China
Author
Hinsch, Bret
Publisher
University of California Press
Date
1990
Object ID
2007.066.398