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Sex with Chinese Characteristics : Sexuality Research In/On 21St Century China This is a repository copy of Sex with Chinese Characteristics : Sexuality research in/on 21st century China. White Rose Research Online URL for this paper: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/127758/ Version: Accepted Version Article: Jackson, Stephanie Forsythe orcid.org/0000-0001-6981-0712, Ho, Petula Sik Ying, Cao, Siyang et al. (1 more author) (2018) Sex with Chinese Characteristics : Sexuality research in/on 21st century China. JOURNAL OF SEX RESEARCH. pp. 486-521. ISSN 0022-4499 https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2018.1437593 Reuse Items deposited in White Rose Research Online are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved unless indicated otherwise. They may be downloaded and/or printed for private study, or other acts as permitted by national copyright laws. The publisher or other rights holders may allow further reproduction and re-use of the full text version. 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[email protected] https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/ PDF proof only--The Journal of Sex Research SEX WITH CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS: SEXUALITY RESEARCH IN/ON 21ST CENTURY CHINA Journal: The Journal of Sex Research Manuscript ID 17-247.R2 Manuscript Type: Original Article Sexual minorities, Women‘s sexuality, Desire, Extramarital Sex, Special Keywords: Populations/Gay, les,ian, ,isexual Page 1 of 118 PDF proof only--The Journal of Sex Research 1 2 3 SEX WITH CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS: 4 5 6 ST SEXUALITY RESEARCH IN/ON 21 CENTURY CHINA 7 8 9 10 Abstract 11 12 13 This article examines the changing contours of Chinese sexuality studies by locating 14 15 recent research in historical context. Our aim is to use the literature we review to 16 17 construct a picture of the sexual landscape in China and the socio-cultural and political 18 19 20 conditions that have shaped it, enabling readers unfamiliar with China so understand its 21 22 sexual culture and practices. In particular, we focus on the consequences of recent 23 24 changes under the Xi regime for individuals! sexual lives and for research into sexuality. 25 26 While discussing the social and political regulation of sexuality, we also attend to the 27 28 29 emergence of new forms of gendered and sexual subjectivity in post-socialist China. We 30 31 argue throughout that sexuality in China is interwoven with the political system in a 32 33 variety of ways, in particular through the tension between neoliberal and authoritarian 34 35 36 styles of governance. We explore normative and dissident sexualities as well as forms of 37 38 sexual conduct that are officially —deviant% but nonetheless tolerated or even tacitly 39 40 enabled by the Party-state. In particular we highlight the dilemmas and contradictions 41 42 43 faced by China!s citizens as they negotiate their sexual lives under —socialism with 44 45 Chinese characteristics%. 46 47 48 49 50 51 (ey words: China* sexuality* Party-state* gender* inequality 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 1 59 60 PDF proof only--The Journal of Sex Research Page 2 of 118 1 2 3 SEX WITH CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS: 4 5 ST 1 6 SEXUALITY RESEARCH IN/ON 21 CENTURY CHINA 7 8 9 Introduction: Ai s and Scope 10 11 12 The social transformation China has undergone in recent decades has had a major impact 13 14 on many aspects of everyday life, including sexual life. Since China!s economic reform 15 16 and —opening up% to the rest of the world, there has been a gradual relaxation of the 17 18 19 previously very restrictive sexual morality accompanied by changes in sexual conduct, 20 21 especially among younger generations (Pan, 1..3* Farrer, 2001* Pan 3 Huang, 2013* 22 23 5effreys & 6u 20178. These developments have been variously characterized as a sexual 24 25 26 revolution (Pan, 2009* Zhang, 20118, and as indicative of the emergence of new forms of 27 28 sexual subjectivity (Rofel, 2007* Wong, 2019* Zhang, 20178. In this context it became 29 30 easier to conduct research on sexuality in China. 0urthermore, the increased openness to 31 32 33 outsiders facilitated exchanges of intellectual ideas between Chinese and foreign 34 35 academics, which widened the scope of what it was possible to research. The result has 36 37 been a burgeoning of publications on sexual issues in recent years, from both indigenous 38 39 and overseas scholars. 40 41 42 43 While China!s opening up created some degree of academic freedom within the country, 44 45 there are signs that Chinese sexuality ,and other8 scholars are now facing renewed 46 47 constraints on their work. There have always been differences between work published 48 49 within the PRC and that produced by scholars based elsewhere, including those in Hong 50 51 52 1 The title is a play on the Chinese Party-state!s designation of its post-Mao system as $socialism with 53 Chinese characteristics.% Our use of the tag $with Chinese characteristics% is not original, but is often used 54 playfully or ironically by scholars writing on China. 0or example, David 4arvey!s A Brief History of 55 Neoliberalism ,10078 includes a chapter entitled $Neoliberalism with AChinese characteristics!% and Lisa 56 Rofel!s Desiring China ,10078 has a chapter on $Cosmopolitanism with Chinese characteristics.% 57 58 2 59 60 Page 3 of 118 PDF proof only--The Journal of Sex Research 1 2 3 (ong and Taiwan. Those working outside China tend to be more critical and more 4 5 6 influenced by western theoretical traditions and are, of course, not subject to the 7 8 censorship of the Chinese state. While some within China have been pushing the 9 10 boundaries of what can be said and adopting more radical stances (Ding, 2019* Li, 200C* 11 12 Pan, 200.* Wang, 20178, the extent to which they will continue to be able to do so is now 13 14 15 in doubt given the tightening of state control and censorship under i Jinping!s 16 17 presidency (see Ringen, 1019* Yuen. 20178. 18 19 20 It is clear from existing literature that the political ordering of sexuality is central to 21 22 23 making sense of Chinese sexual culture. The politics of sexuality in China is, therefore, a 24 25 central theme of this review, not just in the narrow sense of state regulation, but also in 26 27 terms of gender and sexual politics and the broader context of socio-economic 28 29 inequalities. Our aim is to construct a picture of the sexual landscape in China and the 30 31 32 socio-cultural and political conditions that have shaped it. We seek to enable readers 33 34 unfamiliar with China to understand the particularities of its sexual mores and practices 35 36 and especially the tensions and contradictions faced by its citizens as they negotiate their 37 38 39 sexual lives under —socialism with Chinese characteristics.“ In so doing we draw attention 40 41 to the connections and disjunctions between official ideology, political control and actual 42 43 sexual practices on the ground. 44 45 46 In critically reviewing recent work on Mainland China and Hong Kong, primarily the 47 48 49 former, we have not attempted to cover anything and everything published about sex in 50 51 China. Given the extensive literature in the field we have had to be selective. We have 52 53 elected to address issues that have received considerable scholarly attention and then to 54 55 56 focus on the research that offers the greatest insight into those issues, while referencing 57 58 3 59 60 PDF proof only--The Journal of Sex Research Page 4 of 118 1 2 3 other contributions in passing. In some cases, where certain studies are particularly 4 5 6 significant and perceptive, we have discussed them in some depth. Since we are centrally 7 8 concerned with the contemporary sexual scene in a rapidly changing country, we 9 10 concentrate attention on work published in the last decade, while contextualizing this in 11 12 terms of longer term trends. 13 14 15 16 We begin by explaining how China has changed since the Mao era, how this has 17 18 impacted on individuals! sexual lives and how research on sexuality developed during 19 20 this period. Alongside this we chart the development of sexology in China, which can be 21 22 23 seen as contributing to the construction of a new ideal sexual subject in China (Wong, 24 25 10198. We then move on to consider literature on the socio-cultural, economic and 26 27 political factors shaping individual sexual lives, taking in normative and dissident 28 29 sexualities, the emergence of queer communities in China, commercial sex and then the 30 31 32 broader sexual economy and sexualization of culture. Finally we raise issues about the 33 34 conditions facing scholars and activists in China today, what this presages for the future 35 36 of —sex with Chinese characteristics% and how researchers might respond to the 37 38 39 challenges facing us. 40 41 42 Socio-political context: the changing para eters of gender and sexual lives in China 43 44 45 Sexual lives are always lived within wider social contexts. There is a tendency, in both 46 47 Chinese and western cultures, to think of sexuality as a natural human attribute and a 48 49 uniquely private area of life, insulated from wider socio-cultural influences.
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