Ya win some, ya lose some - more queer Chinese history
Friday, December 5, 2025 - 09:00
Nothing of interest to see here from a sapphic point of view, but there is an interesting discussion of apparent alignment in global social trends and how to think about coincidences and whether the trends are genuinely "similar."
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Sommer, Matthew H. “Was China Part of a Global Eighteenth-Century Homosexuality?” in Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques, vol. 33, no. 1, 2007, pp. 117–33.
Spoiler for the question in the article title: “No.” This article is overwhelmingly confined to male relations. There is one very brief section (titled “What about women?”) that basically boils down to “Chinese legal texts weren’t interested in female same-sex behavior therefore we know almost nothing about it, though it did happen, at least in male-authored fiction and pornography.”
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