Making a Meal of It : Sex in Chinese and Western Cultural Settings

"Making a Meal of It" shines a revealing light on contemporary sexual understandings, mores, and behaviors in Chinese and Western societies. Based on 20 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 converging with those in the West.