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This Thesis was approved for publication on 2022-07-19 at 09:56. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #18348 on 2022-11-15 at 18:21:20 Martin, Jeffrey Chow, Kai-Wing Shao, Dan 2022-08 application/pdf en text Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms The student, Shuo Zhang, accepted the attached license on 2022-07-15 at 17:05. The student, Shuo Zhang, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2022-07-15 at 17:38. Seminal modernity: masturbation and the politics of abstinence in early Republican China (1912-1937) Zhang, Shuo 2022-07-19 Masturbation biopolitics print media Chinese modernity This thesis examines the regulation of masturbation and, by implication, male sexuality during China’s early republican years (1912-1937) through the lens of anti-masturbation literature as featured by urban print media in Tianjin and Shanghai. By comparing and contrasting the discursive roles played by three different civic actors in rationalizing sexual abstinence, notably the state, May-Fourth educated elites, and religious as well as medical societies, I argue that the Republic’s biopolitical climate and the spread of print had enabled a field of politics where enlightenment discourses were appropriated to the advantage of these various civic actors, thus turning the Republic’s biogovernance into a dynamic unfolding process, rather than a unilateral top-down process of repression of the male body. Thesis eng https://hdl.handle.net/2142/116257 Copyright 2022 Shuo Zhang M.A. Thesis E Asian Languages & Cultures University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign E. Asian Languages & Cultures