Download or read book Sex, Culture and Modernity in China written by Frank Dikotter and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 1995-05-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the disintegration of Confucian cosmology after the fall of the imperial system in China, medical science was introduced as an epistemological foundation for social order. the construction of sexuality as a dangerous drive which was thought to form t