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There\u2019s power in being the king who sits upon the throne, but also power in being the throne upon who the king sits. This was true as ever \xa0in the court of Emperor Ai in Han Dynasty China in 22 BC. We\u2019re going to be talking about someone who in 21 short years of life rose from a low class status to being one of the most powerful imperial officials in China \u2013 all by becoming the favorite of the Emperor. Their passion was so renowned it led to the creation of what remains a Chinese idiomatic expression for homosexuality. But we\u2019ll also be talking about prevailing bisexuality in the Han dynasty court, the reception culture of this story both in China and outside it then and now, and how people in both China and the West have adopted this story.\nPre-order our paperback now for a free e-book!\n----more----\nHoward Chiang, \u201cEpistemic Modernity and the Emergence of Homosexuality in China: Epistemic Modernity and the Emergence of Homosexuality in China,\u201d Gender & History 22, no. 3 (November 2010): 629\u201357, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0424.2010.01612.\nBret Hinsch, Passions of the Cut Sleeve: The Male Homosexual Tradition in China, Reprint edition (Berkely, Calif.: University of California Press, 1992)\nMartin W. Huang, \u201cMale-Male Sexual Bonding and Male Friendship in Late Imperial China,\u201d Journal of the History of Sexuality 22, no. 2 (2013): 312\u201331\nM. P. Lau and M. L. Ng, \u201cHomosexuality in Chinese Culture,\u201d Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 13, no. 4 (December 1, 1989): 465\u201388, https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00052053\nTze-lan Deborah Sang, \u201cTranslating Homosexuality: The Discourse of Tongxing\u2019ai in Republican China (1912\u20131949),\u201d in Translating Homosexuality: The Discourse of Tongxing\u2019ai in Republican China (1912\u20131949) (Duke University Press, 2000), 276\u2013304\nJames D. Seymour, review of Review of Passions of the Cut Sleeve: The Male Homosexual Tradition in China, by Bret Hinsch, Journal of the History of Sexuality 3, no. 1 (1992): 141\u201343\nPing-Hsuan Wang, \u201cI\u2019m a \u2018Cut-Sleeve\u2019: Coming out from a POC Perspective,\u201d Narrative Inquiry 31, no. 2 (July 12, 2021): 338\u201357, https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.19088.wan\nIntersections: Interview with Samshasha, Hong Kong\u2019s First Gay Rights Activist and Author,\u201d accessed May 15, 2023, http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue4/interview_mclelland.html.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur intro music is Arpeggia Colorix by Yann Terrien, downloaded from WFMU's Free Music Archive and distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Our outro music is by DJ Michaeloswell Graphicsdesigner.