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In his book Tradition, Edward Shils seems to be of the opinion that everything we see today is rooted in tradition; the new is only a contemporary rehash or transformation of the old. If we begin with this notion, it seems that we ought not to theorize modernization of any kind with a polarized framework. This is especially true when we study Chinese people’s view on sex.
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Hu, Y. (2017). Sex. In: Zhou, X. (eds) Inner Experience of the Chinese People. Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4986-6_11
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