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Ideology and Sexuality: Rape Laws in Qing China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Vivien W. Ng
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It is generally accepted that Qing China (1644–1912) was a straitlaced, sexually repressed society. Robert H. van Gulik, for example, ended his study of sexual life in China with the fall of the Ming dynasty, in part because he believed that Chinese attitudes toward sexuality became much more repressive after the Ming, and the generalizations he made in his book were not appropriate for the Qing (1961:333–36). This dramatic change in attitude has been attributed to the resurgence of Cheng- Zhu Neo-Confucianism, with its strict view of sexual relations in general, and female sexuality in particular (Ropp 1981:120–24).

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Women in Qing Period China—A Symposium
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , February 1987 , pp. 57 - 70
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Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1987

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