Download or read book Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China written by Matthew Harvey Sommer and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the regulation of sexuality in the Qing dynasty explores the social context for sexual behavior criminalized by the state, showing how regulation shifted away from status to a new regime of gender that mandated a uniform standard of sexual morality and criminal liability for all people, regardless of their social status.