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Masculinity In The Ching Dynasty

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There are three main streams of family structure in the Ming Ching Dynasty in China, they are Emperor, Nobles and Peasants.

Emperor, as the article of “Dangerous Males, Vulnerable Males and Polluted Males: The Regulation of Masculinity in Qing Dynasty Law”, by Matthew H. Sommer, said in the palace attendants who are called Eunuchhood (The artificial third sex, named my Mitamura Tausuke) had have surgery in order to eliminated impregnate and penetrate, which are helping to create the most ideal thing that the emperor can enjoy the sole access to the countless wives that he have inside the palace. The writer even using irony phrase to criticize the act of the Eunchhood, claiming that “Walls, moats and guards encircling the places’s inner …show more content…

The liang min usually are peasants, commercial and artisan classes; and according to the article, in the hierarchy of ling min, there are a stratum of jian min or so called the “mean people” below them. The jian min are often having stigmatized occupations and presumably immoral conduct determined their databased legal status. They usually work as actors, prostitution, domestic salves.” People are expected to have a different treatment for liang min and jian min. There will be no doubt that jian min will receive a higher penalty then the liang min in the case of committing the same crime. The jian min will receive a lot higher penalty when they commit a crime towards the liang min, while compare the same tier crime within liang min. It is quite ironic that when the liang min committed crime towards the jin min, they can be decrease their penalty as they are superior than those jin min. This shows the serious hierarchy in the ancient china Qing Dynasty, yet this phenomena of hierarchy regarding the peasants status are actually not limited happening in the Qing dynasty in China, they exist everywhere all through the world. I have come across several readings concerning the violence and gender in the France and United States. In my previous classes, referring to June Jordan poem “Poem about My Rights”. She said that in France, if a guy penetrates but does not ejaculate, that he consented he did not, because the woman is classified as wrong, and the women is black, she is the target of sexual abuse. The classification of the black women in the society are similar with the classification of the jian min in the Qing dynasty of ancient China, that jian min can be referred or classified as prostitute, whereas the black peoples are being classified as the person that can be sexual

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