Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities: A Reader
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The Phallocentrism of the Law The Phallocentrism of the Law
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Dangerous Males Dangerous Males
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Legislative Discourse of the “Rootless Rascal” Legislative Discourse of the “Rootless Rascal”
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The Sexuality of the Dangerous Male The Sexuality of the Dangerous Male
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Vulnerable Males Vulnerable Males
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Legislative Discourse and Case Records Legislative Discourse and Case Records
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Eroticization of the Young Male Eroticization of the Young Male
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Polluted Males and Nonmales Polluted Males and Nonmales
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The Double Meaning of Liang The Double Meaning of Liang
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Professional Female Impersonators Professional Female Impersonators
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Men Who Consented to Being Penetrated Men Who Consented to Being Penetrated
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The Cross-Dressing Predator The Cross-Dressing Predator
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Conclusion: The Normative Male Conclusion: The Normative Male
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Notes Notes
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Two Dangerous Males, Vulnerable Males, and Polluted Males: The Regulation of Masculinity in Qing Dynasty Law
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Published:07 January 2002
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Abstract
This chapter examines how Qing jurists imagined masculinity and male sexual behavior in the larger context of defending familial order. The High Qing regulation of sexuality aimed to defend a Confucian vision of family-based order against the threat of men who were excluded from that order. The principal target of Qing efforts to regulate male sexual conduct was the marginal man who stood outside of (and presumably opposed to) the family-based social and moral order that underpinned the imperial state. In addition, the judicial constructs of the Qing dynasty, and especially its attempts to regulate sexuality, has to be understood against a social background in which men outnumbered women, so that patriarchal stability was perceived as under constant threat from a crowd of rogue males at the bottom of the socioeconomic scale. The household of the normative male, that microcosm of imperial order, was under siege; the purpose of law was to strengthen its defense.
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