Socialist Sex; The Cultural Revolution Revisited  

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Honig, Emily

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Modern China vol. 29 no. 2 (Apr. 2003), page 143-175.
Topik: The Cultural Revolution Revisited
Fulltext: 143MC292.pdf (123.37KB)

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The discussion of sex, Chinese and Western scholarship suggests, is emblematic of the seemingly absolute distinction between the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) and the subsequent post-Mao/ economic reform period. During the Maoist Cultural Revolution, when politics was in command, to discuss any aspect of personal life, romantic relationships, or sexwas considered bourgeois and hence taboo. Throughout the more recent decades, however, sex how to do it, with who mit is appropriate, at what age it is acceptable has exploded as one of the major topics of public debate and is featured as the subject of fiction, films, newspaper and magazine articles, and scholarly research. Personal testimonies and memoirs, filled during the Maoist years with chronicles of political consciousness and struggle, have becomemore reflective about their authors’romantic and sexual histories. This shift has produced, ironically, a sexing of the Cultural Revolution an insertion of sexual discussion, practice, and preoccupation into the history of a period long presumed to have been dominated by political concerns.

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