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Sex, Eugenics, Aesthetics and Utopia in the Life and Work of Zhang Jingsheng (1888--1970) (cited 2010)

University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
Cambridge University
Publication date: cited 2010
Language: English

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Eugenics Colonialism Sex Reproductive medicine Imperialism 20th century 19th century China Zhang Jingsheng Ellis, Havelock

This thesis concerns the history of the sexual and reproductive sciences during the May Fourth New Culture Movement (1915-1927) in China. During this period of war and revolution, public intellectuals in China wanted to save the nation from the forces of imperialism and colonialism. To this end, they translated, creatively appropriated, and disseminated a tremendous range of scientific and medical discourses, including European and American works on sexology, eugenics and birth control. Many of these intellectuals acknowledged the importance of the reform of gender relations and the regulation of reproduction, in the pursuit of modernity. This thesis focuses on one of these Chinese intellectuals, ¿Dr Sex¿ Zhang Jingsheng (1888-1970), best known for his 1926 Sex Histories (Xingshi). Sex Histories was a sensational and scandalous book; it contained seven sexually explicit ¿case studies¿, selected from confessional narratives which Zhang solicited from the public. Zhang claimed that he was emulating the work of British sexologist Havelock Ellis (1859-1939); he wanted to introduce the scientific study of sex to China, to overthrow what he regarded as repressive and hypocritical Chinese traditions.

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Description Defense date not indicated; cited by UMI in 2010. Cited in ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing. Proquest Document ID: 1314575278.

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