BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GAY AND LESBIAN HISTORY Compiled by Rictor Norton
INDEX: [General History] [Anthologies] [Lesbian: General] [Pre-Modern Lesbian] [Modern Lesbian] [Literary History] [Language] [Art & Film] [Theory] [Famous Homosexuals] [Anthropology] [Ancient] [Medieval] [Early Modern] [Renaissance] [European] [English Early Modern] [English Modern] [German] [Dutch] [French] [Spain & Portugal] [Pre-Modern American] [Modern American] [Middle East] [Latin America] [Africa] [Colonial and Non-European Updated 4 June 2004

General "Oriental"

Edwardes, Allen
Jewel in the Lotus. New York: Julian, 1959. Several modern reprints.
Yamauchi, Edwin M.
"Cultic prostitution: A case study in cultural diffusion", in H. A. Hoffner, Jr. (ed.), Orient and Occident. Kevelaer, Netherlands: Butzon & Bercker, 1973, pp. 213-22.

China

Hinsch, Bret
Passions of the Cut Sleeve: The Male Homosexual Tradition in China. Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford: University of California Press, 1990.
Ng, Vivien W.
"Homosexuality and the state in late Imperial China", in Duberman et al., Hidden from History (1989), pp. 76-89.
Ruan, Fang-fu, and Yung-mei Tsai
"Male homosexuality in the traditional Chinese literature", Journal of Homosexuality 14, nos. 3-4 (1987), pp. 21-33.
Vitiello, Giovanni
"The Dragon's Whim: Ming and Qing homoerotic tales from The Cut Sleeve", T'oung Pao: Revue internationale de sinologie, 78 (1992): 341-72.
Vitiello, Giovanni
"Exemplary sodomites: Male homosexuality in late Ming fiction", Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California at Berkeley, 1994.
Xiaomingxiong (Ng Siu-ming)
Zhongguo tongxingai shilu [History of Homosexuality in China]. Hong Kong: Pink Triangle Press, 1984; rev. ed. 1997.

India

Jaffrey, Zia
The Invisibles: Tale of the Eunuchs of India. Phoenix, 1998.
Nanda, Serena
"Hijras as neither man nor woman", in Abelove et al., The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader (1993), 542-52.
Nanda, Serena
Neither Man Nor Woman: The Hijras of India. 2nd edn. Wadsworth Pub. Co., 1999.
Sweet, Michael and Zwilling, Leonard
"The first medicalization: The taxonomy and etiology of queerness in classical Indian medicine", Journal of the History of Sexuality, 3, 4 (1993), 590-697.
Sweet, Michael and Zwilling, Leonard
"`Like a city ablaze': The third sex and the creation of sexuality in Jain religious literature", Journal of the History of Sexuality, 6, 3 (1996), 359-84.
Thadani, Giti
Sakhiyani: Lesbian Desire in Ancient and Modern India. London: Cassell, 1996.

Japan

Hawkins, Joseph R.
"Japan's journey into homophobia", Gay and Lesbian Review, 7.1 (2000): 36-8.
Ihara Saikaku
The Great Mirror of Male Love, trans. with introd. Paul Gordon Schalow. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1990.
Leupp, Gary P.
Male Colors: Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan. University of California Press, 1996.
Miller, Stephen D. (ed.)
Partings At Dawn: An Anthology of Japanese Gay Literature. San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1996.
Minakata Kumagusu and Iwata Jun'ichi
"Morning fog (correspondence on gay lifestyles", trans. William F. Sibley, in Miller, Partings At Dawn (1996), pp. 135-71.
Pflugfelder, Gregory M.
Cartographies of Desire: Male-male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600-1950. University of California Press, 1999.
Schalow, Paul Gordon
"Introduction", in Miller, Partings At Dawn (1996), pp. 11-19.
Schalow, Paul Gordon
"The Invention of a Literary Tradition of Male Love", in Miller, Partings At Dawn (1996), pp. 97-102.
Schalow, Paul Gordon
"Kukai and the tradition of male love in Japanese Buddhism", in J. I. Cabezón (ed.), Buddhism, Sexuality, and Gender. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992, pp. 216-30.
Schalow, Paul Gordon
"Male love in early modern Japan: a literary depiction of the 'youth'", in Duberman et al., Hidden from History, 1989, pp. 118-28.
Tsuneo Watanabe and Jun'ichi Iwata
The Love of the Samurai: A Thousand Years of Japanese Homosexuality, trans. D.R. Roberts. London: GMP, 1989.

Thailand

Jackson, Peter A.
Dear Uncle Go: Male Homosexuality in Thailand. Floating Lotus Books, 1996.

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