Art of the Bedchamber
Author: Douglas Wile
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1992-01-01
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780791408858
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn anthology of over two millennia of Chinese treatises on the use and practice of sexual intercourse
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Images of Women in Chinese Thought and Culture
Author: Robin Wang
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780872206519
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis rich collection of writings--many translated especially for this volume and some available in English for the first time--provides a journey through the history of Chinese culture, tracing the Chinese understanding of women as elucidated in writings spanning more than two thousand years. From the earliest oracle bone inscriptions of the Pre-Qin period through the poems and stories of the Song Dynasty, these works shed light on Chinese images of women and their roles in society in terms of such topics as human nature, cosmology, gender, and virtue.
Sexual Life in Ancient China
Author: R.H. van Gulik
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-10-01
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9004487867
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1961 Robert van Gulik published his pioneering overview of Sexual Life in Ancient China. This edition of the work is preceded by an elaborate introduction by Paul Rakita Goldin assessing the value of Van Gulik’s volume, the subject itself, and its author. The introduction is followed by an extensive and up-to-date bibliography on the subject, which guides the modern reader in the literature on the field which appeared after the publication of Van Gulik's volume. One of the criticisms in 1961 regarded the Latin translations of passages deemed too explicit by Van Gulik. In this 2002 edition all Latin has for the first time been translated into unambiguous English, thus making the full text widely available to an academic audience.
Medieval Chinese Medicine
Author: Christopher Cullen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-06-02
Total Pages: 477
ISBN-13: 1134291310
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn recent decades various versions of Chinese medicine have begun to be widely practised in Western countries, and the academic study of the subject is now well established. However, there are still few scholarly monographs that describe the history of Chinese medicine and there are none at all on the medieval period. This collection represents the kind of international collaboration of research teams, centres and individuals that is required to begin to study the source materials adequately. The first book in English to discuss this fascinating material in the century since the Dunhuang library was discovered, the text provides a unique and fascinating interpretation of Chinese medical history.
Lost T'ai-chi Classics from the Late Ch'ing Dynasty
Author: Douglas Wile
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1996-08-15
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 143842406X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDouglas Wile translates and analyzes four collections of recently released nineteenth-century manuscripts on T'ai-chi ch'uan. These writings of Wu's older brothers Ch'eng-ch'ing and Ju-ch'ing, and his nephew Li I-yu, together with the transmissions of Yang Pan-hou, represent a significant addition to the seminal literature. The rich new texts allow us to make a fresh survey of longstanding issues in T'ai-chi history: the origins of the art; the authorship of the "classics;" the differences between Wu, Yang, and Li; and the roles of Chang San-feng, Wang Tsung-yueh, Chiang Fa, and the formerly missing link, Ch'ang Nai-chou. The original Chinese texts of the four new sets of classics have been appended for the convenience of Chinese readers and scholars. The book reconsiders the world of the Wu, Yang, and Li families of Yung-nien and reconstructs it against the background of the Opium Wars, the Taiping Rebellion, and the decline of the Manchu dynasty. New biographical sources illuminate the domestic and political lives of the Yung-nien circle and their orientation to the late imperial intellectual trends. The development of T'ai-chi ch'uan in the nineteenth century is explored in the context of China's cultural response to the challenge of the West and the role of body-centered arts in Asia during the drive for independence and the ongoing search for national identity.
Sex in China
Author: Fang Fu Ruan
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-11-22
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1489906096
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChina today is sexually (and in many other ways) a very repressive so ciety, yet ancient China was very different. Some of the earliest surviving literature of China is devoted to discussions of sexual topics, and the sexual implications of the Ym and Yang theories common in ancient China continue to influence Tantric and esoteric sexual practices today far dis tant from their Chinese origins. In recent years, a number of books have been written exploring the history of sexual practices and ideas in China, but most have ended the discussion with ancient China and have not continued up to the present time. Fang Fu Ruan first surveys the ancient assumptions and beliefs, then carries the story to present-day China with brief descriptions of homosexuality, lesbianism, transvestism, transsexualism, and prostitution, and ends with a chapter on changing attitudes toward sex in China today. Dr. Ruan is well qualified to give such an overview. Until he left China in the 1980s, he was a leader in attempting to change the repressive attitudes of the government toward human sexuality. He wrote a best selling book on sex in China, and had written to and corresponded with a number of people in China who considered him as confidant and ad visor about their sex problems. A physician and medical historian, Dr. Ruan's doctoral dissertation was a study of the history of sex in China.
Human Sexuality
Author: Vern L. Bullough
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 668
ISBN-13: 9780824079727
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
General Theory of Taoism
Author: Hu Fuchen
Publisher: Paths International Ltd
Published: 2013-02-01
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 1844640957
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo understand Taoism is to understand the roots of contemporary Chinese culture. This hugely significant new book from Hu Fuchen highlights the significance of Taoism in modern day China, and supplies detailed information covering all aspects of a philosophical and religious tradition which is followed by as many as 400 million people worldwide. Comprehensive and user-friendly, the author outlines the principle theories and categories of Taoism covering each aspect in great detail. Whether new to the subject or a follower, this essential book will enable you to better understand all aspects Taoism and appreciate its central role within a newly reformed China.
Before Confucius
Author: Edward L. Shaughnessy
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780791433775
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the original composition of China's oldest books, the Classic of Changes, the Venerated Documents, and the Classic of Poetry, and attempts to restore their original meanings.
The Inner Quarters
Author: Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1993-12
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 0520081587
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Opening up questions about women's lives, about gender, about why we read history at all and how we write it, Patricia Buckley Ebrey has made The Inner Quarters a place we need to enter."—from the Foreword
