Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture under Postsocialism (Literary Cultures of the Global South)

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Peakman, Julie (2015). "4 Continuities and change in sexual behavioour and attitudes since 1750". In McNeill, J. R.; Pomeranz, Kenneth (eds.). The Cambridge World History: Volume 7, Production, Destruction and Connection 1750–Present, Part 2, Shared Transformations?. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1316297841. Prohibition of homosexuality has continued into the twentyfirst century in some places with criminal penalties, ... Homosexuality has never been illegal in Japan except for a short time from 1872– 1880, and although civil rights are not ...

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On 31 December 2015, the China Television Drama Production Industry Association posted new guidelines, including a ban on showing LGBT relationships on television. The regulations stated: "No television drama shall show abnormal sexual relationships and behaviours, such as incest, same-sex relationships, sexual perversion, sexual assault, sexual abuse, sexual violence, and so on." [95] These new regulations have begun to affect web dramas, [96] which have historically had fewer restrictions: [97]

Jeffreys, Elaine (2017), "Public policy and LGBT people and activism in mainland China", Routledge Handbook of the Chinese Communist Party, Routledge, doi: 10.4324/9781315543918-18/public-policy-lgbt-people-activism-mainland-china-elaine-jeffreys, ISBN 978-1-315-54391-8 , retrieved 2023-11-26 In the 1980s, greater public discussion and research of homosexuality became permitted. One of the first Hong Kong gay rights activists and writers to study the history of homosexuality in China was Xiaomingxiong (also known as Samshasha), author of the comprehensive "The History of Homosexuality in China" (1984). [52] By the mid-1980s Chinese researchers on the mainland had begun investigating same-sex relationships in China. Some of the most notable work was conducted by sexologist Ruan Fangfu, who in 1991 published in English Sex in China: Studies in Sexology in Chinese Culture. [53] Human Rights Report: China (includes Tibet, Hong Kong, and Macau)". U.S. State Department. Archived from the original on 2018-04-22. Xi'an police detained nine members of the gay advocacy group Speak Out hours before the conference it was hosting was slated to start.Po-Han Lee, a scholar at the University of Sussex, claims that the regulation of LGBT activism in Asia has increased in recent years as governments attempt to dissociate with the “individualistic” West. [134] He argues that there has been an “awakening of cultural nationalism and the re-emergence of sexual conservatism”, fuelled by post-colonial trauma. [135] The Marriage Law of the People's Republic of China ( Chinese: 中华 人民 共 和 国 婚姻 法, pinyin: Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó Hūnyīn Fǎ), adopted at the third session of the Fifth National People's Congress on September 10, 1980, defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman. [32] [33] Association for Asian Studies. Ming Biographical History Project Committee, Luther Carrington Goodrich, Chao-ying Fang (1976). Dictionary of Ming biography, 1368–1644. Columbia University Press. p.309. ISBN 0-231-03801-1 . Retrieved November 28, 2010. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link) In June 2009, the Government of Hong Kong extended limited recognition and protection to cohabitating same-sex couples in its Domestic Violence Ordinance ( Chinese: 家庭及同居關係暴力條例). [41] Darius Longarino argues that the Chinese government views homosexuality as “a malign foreign influence that is stopping youth from getting married and having children”. [125] Thus, the CCP has adopted a policy of promoting the traditional nuclear family, to ensure the next generation of strong Chinese youth, whilst maintaining social stability.