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Epistemic modernity and the emergence of homosexuality in China
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Chiang, Howard H. (2010) Epistemic modernity and the emergence of homosexuality in China. Gender & History, Vol.22 (No.3). pp. 629-657. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0424.2010.01612.x ISSN 0953-5233.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0424.2010.01612.x
Abstract
Centred on two Republican-era Chinese sexologists, Zhang Jingsheng (1888–1970) and Pan Guangdan (1899–1967), this article explores the intellectual context in which the western category of ‘homosexuality’ was introduced to Chinese culture, thereby highlighting its production of a key epistemological rearrangement in the social significance of same-sex desire in modern China. The article proposes and develops the analytic rubric of ‘epistemic modernity’ to illuminate the pertinent discursive apparatus of cultural translation and negotiation, on the basis of which explicit claims of (sexual) knowledge-making were imbricated with implicit claims about cultural indicators of traditionality, authenticity and modernity.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Gender & History | ||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||
ISSN: | 0953-5233 | ||||
Official Date: | 2010 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.22 | ||||
Number: | No.3 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 629-657 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1468-0424.2010.01612.x | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published |
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