"Injuring customs and corrupting hearts" : pornography and modernity in China at the turn of the 20th century
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation traces the emergence of "pornography, " a concept and commodity defined by competing claims to authoritative knowledge, in China circa 1880 to 1930. In this period, the rise of new information technologies and ideas about sexuality as fundamental to selfhood eroded extant structures of power and enabled alternative models of legitimacy. Sexually explicit representations and efforts to control them had a long but unstudied history in China; by connecting individuals' bodies and desires to massive institutional, ideological, and material transformations, this work offers a new perspective on a critical period in Chinese history. Existing scholarship furthermore links the "invention of pornography" to modernity as a uniquely Western phenomenon; this dissertation thus also offers an intervention on the uneasy conjunction of sexuality, information, and authority in the ongoing saga of global modernity.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2014 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Wang, Yiwen Yvon |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of History. |
| Primary advisor | Sommer, Matthew Harvey, 1961- |
| Thesis advisor | Sommer, Matthew Harvey, 1961- |
| Thesis advisor | Lee, Haiyan |
| Thesis advisor | Mullaney, Thomas S. (Thomas Shawn) |
| Thesis advisor | Wigen, Kären, 1958- |
| Advisor | Lee, Haiyan |
| Advisor | Mullaney, Thomas S. (Thomas Shawn) |
| Advisor | Wigen, Kären, 1958- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Yiwen Yvon Wang. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of History. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2014. |
| Location | electronic resource |
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- Copyright
- © 2014 by Yiwen Yvon Wang
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