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Passions of the Cut Sleeve - The Male Homosexual Tradition in China

English · Paperback / Softback

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Bret Hinsch is professor of history at Fo Guang University, Yilan, Taiwan.

Summary

Drawing from dynastic histories, erotic novels, popular Buddhist tracts, love poetry, legal cases and joke books, "Passions of the Cut Sleeve" evokes the complex male homosexual tradition in China from the Bronze Age until its decline in recent times.

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"This is an important book . . . [that] may help to bring about a more accurate awareness among East Asian peoples that hatred of same-sex eroticism is a prejudice that is alien to their rich cultural heritage."

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