![]() | The Libertine's Friend: Homosexuality and Masculinity in Late Imperial China Delving into three hundred years of Chinese literature, from the mid-sixteenth century to the mid-nineteenth, The Libertine's Friend uncovers the complex and fascinating history of male homosexual and homosocial relations in the late imperial era. Drawing particularly on overlooked works of pornographic fiction, Giovanni Vitiello offers a frank exploration of the importance of same-sex love and eroticism to the evolution of masculinity in China. Giovanni Vitiello is associate professor of Chinese at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. |
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