Sex in China
China Today Series

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015

Sex in China introduces readers to some of the dramatic shifts that have taken place in Chinese sexual behaviours and attitudes, and public discussions of sex, since the 1980s. The book explores what it means to talk about ?sex? in present-day China, where sex and sexuality are more and more visible in everyday life. Elaine Jeffreys and Haiqing Yu situate China?s changing sexual culture, and how it is governed, in the socio-political history of the People?s Republic of China. They demonstrate that Chinese governmental authorities and policies do not set out strictly to repress ?sex?; they also create spaces for the emergence of new sexual subjects and subjectivities. They discuss the complexities surrounding the ongoing explosion of commentary on sex and sexuality in the PRC, and the emergence of new sexual behaviours and mores.

Sex in China offers clear, critical coverage of sex-related issues that are a focus of public concern and debate in China - chapters focus on sex studies; marriage and family planning; youth and sex(iness); gay, lesbian and queer discourses and identities; commercial sex; and HIV/AIDS. This book will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars both of modern China and of sex and sexualities, who wish to understand the role that ?sex? plays in contemporary China.

Map
Chronology
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
1 Sex in China: Introduction
2 Marriage and ‘Family Planning’
3 Youth and Sex(iness)
4 Gay, Lesbian and Queer
5 Commercial Sex
6 Sex and Public Health
7 Sex Studies
8 Concluding Comments

Elaine Jeffreys is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Associate Professor in China Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney

Dr Haiqing Yu is Senior Lecturer of Chinese media and culture at the University of New South Wales (Australia)