"Sex In China" ( Fang Fu Ruan )

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"Fang Fu Ruan's fascinating book Sex in China is a history of sexual behavior in the world's largest nation during the past 3,000 years. As Ruan demonstrates in the historical data he has compiled, sexual liberty, rather than repression, was

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"Fang Fu Ruan's fascinating book Sex in China is a history of sexual behavior in the world's largest nation during the past 3,000 years. As Ruan demonstrates in the historical data he has compiled, sexual liberty, rather than repression, was usually the rule in China for the first 2,000 years of recorded history. Yet, for the past 1,000 years, since the Sung Dynasty (960-1279), the repression of sexuality increasingly became the norm. In the last half of the twentieth century, under the rule of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), this repression has reached its highest pitch. Prior to the centuries of repression, however, the Chinese made the broadest and most practical of contributions to sexology of almost any nation in the world. It is Ruan's hope that these ancient texts will prove to be helpful to the Chinese people once again. But, in the meantime, he studies the ..."

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