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103 BIBLIOGRAPHIE R. H. VAN GULIK, Sexual Life in Ancient China: A preliminary survey of Chinese sex and society from ca. 1500 B.C. till 1644 A.D. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1961, xvii + 329 pp., in -4°. In spite of the importance given to them by modern psychology, there can be little doubt that sexual habits are one of the least revealing facets in the study of a culture. The gamut of variations is extremely narrow and, by the nature of the thing, bound to repeat themselves in all societies and during all periods in history. The general attitudes towards sexual activities of a people is another, perhaps more fruitful domain, but an extremely subtle one, often involving philosophical and theological considerations seemingly far distant from the act they influence. The present book attempts to discuss both aspects of the problem as they are seen in China, from the beginnings of Chinese history to the end of the Ming dynasty. The author's discussion of the sexual habits, based upon sexual handbooks and upon a remarkable number of citations drawn from the whole of Chinese literature, is brilliant and unexpectedly enlightening; his discussion of the sexual attitudes, based on
T'oung Pao – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1964
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