{"id":1058,"date":"2018-12-19T20:38:58","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T20:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/?page_id=1058"},"modified":"2018-12-19T20:50:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T20:50:05","slug":"sex-and-the-state-the-impact-of-state-policy-on-sexual-expression-in-china","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/sex-and-the-state-the-impact-of-state-policy-on-sexual-expression-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex and The State: The Impact of State Policy on Sexual Expression in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Emma Loftis<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>Faculty Intro:<\/h4>\n<p>\n&#8220;Emma Loftis\u2019 \u201cSex and the State: The Impact of State Policy on Sexual Expression in China\u201d was the final project in First Year Seminar (FYS) 200 during Fall 2017.  Ms. Loftis served as the Teaching Assistant for my First Year Seminar (FYS) 100 course, \u201cAm I Black or White? Am I Straight or Gay?\u201d that explores societal polarity mandates on racial and sexual identity.  As a previous graduate of the course, Emma challenged herself by embarking on a project to examine how human sexuality had been restricted in other places at other times.  As such, she selected China in the post-Mao era to investigate its effects and the implications on sexuality during and after the Chinese Cultural Revolution.&#8221; &#8211; Angelo Robinson\n<\/p>\n<h4>From the Author:<\/h4>\n<p>&#8220;China\u2019s Cultural Revolution (1966\u20141976) was a time of strict sexual repression wherein the state, led by Mao Zedong, made efforts both explicitly and implicitly to construct a largely asexual nation. However, in the forty years following the Cultural Revolution, open expression of sexuality has become far more acceptable in Chinese society; a monumental shift often referred to as China\u2019s \u201csexual revolution.\u201d This paper explores the ways in which political attitudes under Mao\u2019s China, as well as those of the post-Mao era, shaped notions of sexuality in the Chinese populace during each respective period.<\/p>\n<p>\tBy highlighting the ideological shift in the China\u2019s political administration from repressive socialism to tolerant free-market economy, I argue that there is a causal relationship between governance, economy and the sexual revolution. I anchor my argument by analyzing three key issues which prompted various responses from the Chinese state. I begin by analyzing the reason for the disappearance of the term aiqing, or \u2018romantic love\u2019 during the Cultural Revolution, and its resurgence in the post-Mao era. I then shift my focus to the differing responses of each political era to the population\u2019s consumption of erotic texts. Finally, I compare methods of state-implemented population control under Mao to the methods of population control during the Post-Mao era.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/files\/2018\/12\/Lofton-Sex-State.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Sex and The State: The Impact of State Policy on Sexual Expression in China<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyrights of all Verge articles and editorial material belong to the authors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Emma Loftis Faculty Intro: &#8220;Emma Loftis\u2019 \u201cSex and the State: The Impact of State Policy on Sexual Expression in China\u201d was the final project in First Year Seminar (FYS) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1058","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1059,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1058\/revisions\/1059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}