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Sex, Culture and Modernity in China: Medical Science and the Construction of Sexual Identities in the Early Republican Period (1st Edition) by Frank Dikotter, Robert E. Rogers Hardcover, 233 Pages, Published 1995 ISBN-10: 0-8248-1676-5 / 0824816765 ISBN-13: 978-0-8248-1676-6 / 9780824816766 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 the very core of the individual led to the eme |