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Making a Meal of It: Sex in Chinese and Western Cultural Settings
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Winner of The USA Best Books 2011 Awards and The 2011 Reader Views Literary Awards, Making a Meal of It shines a revealing light on contemporary sexual understandings, mores, and behaviours in Chinese and Western societies. Based on twenty years of original comparative research, this book argues that embedded meanings of sex remain fundamentally different between the two cultures--despite decades of loosening premarital sexual mores in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan that appear to be convergi...