Description: "Uses Beijing police archives to present a social and intellectual history of the evolution of markets for and regulation of sexual depictions in today's China, focusing on media markets from c. 1880 to 1940 as a motor for cultural change and linking the Chinese case to global trends"--
Review Quotes:
This volume's concerns reach far beyond eroticism and sexuality. It explores the shifting power structures and cultural politics behind the "global modern pornographic turn" of which China was a part as it emerged at the turn of the twentieth century (14-17, 44, 202).
-- "Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews"