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- Title
Epistemic Modernity and the Emergence of Homosexuality in China Gender & History Epistemic Modernity and the Emergence of Homosexuality in China.
- Authors
Chiang, Howard
- 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.
- Subjects
CHINA; HOMOSEXUALITY; ZHANG Jingsheng; PAN Guangdan; SEX education; SOCIAL problems; SEXOLOGY; SOCIAL history; TWENTIETH century; SOCIAL change; INTELLECTUAL life; MANNERS &; customs
- Publication
Gender & History, 2010, Vol 22, Issue 3, p629
- ISSN
0953-5233
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-0424.2010.01612.x