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In this revealing and often shocking book, Professor Mitamura

hides nothing, presenting the sordid and macasbre details of a

political system built upon and glorifying human emasculation and

degradation. The book traces the history eunuchism from its bvery

early days until november 5, 1924. when the system was finally

banned and hundreds of eunuchs, "crying pitifully in high-pitched

feminine voices," were expelled from Tzu Chin (Guzheng) Palace,

thus ending a system that had endured over 2,000 years and through

25 dynasties.

Publisher's Foreword 9

Foreword 15

CHAPTER I - The Artificial Third Sex 21

- Incomprehensible Beings 21

- Origin of Eunuchs 26

- Methods of Castration 28

- Appearance and Characteristics 36

CHAPTER II - Provenance of Eunuchs 43

- Strong Jealousies 43

- Symbols of Conquest 46

- Emperor's Shadows 50

- Sources of Supply 52

- Castration as Punishment 55

- Changes in Supply 58

- Excess of Eunuchs 65

- Major Social Problem 71

CHAPTER III - Residents of the Women's Quarters 74

- One Hundred and Twenty-two Wives 74

- "One-set" Marriage System 81

- Rise of Fearsome Wives 88

CHAPTER IV - In the Palace 96

- Duties of Eunuchs 96

- Twenty-four Official Agencies 101

- Eunuchs in Charge of Imperial Bedchambers 110

- Influential Court Ladies 116

- Hung Pills 120

- Married Eunuchs 123

- Fate of Eunuchs 126

CHAPTER V - The Two Intimates in Destroying Empires: Earlier Han and Later Han 128

- Emperors Raised in Laps of Eunuchs 128

- Obsessions of an Empress Dowager 130

- Yellow Age and Moral Thought 134

- Eunuch's Daughter Becomes Empress 141

- Eunuchs Band Together 146

- Emperors and Ministers 151

CHAPTER VI - Eunuchs and Calamities Involving Women: T'ang Dynasty 153

- Ch'ang An: Capitol of Beauty and Immorality 153

- Agents of Autocratic Emperors 158

- Abortive Attempt to Control Eunuchs 159

- Last of the Eunuchs 160

APPENDIX 1 - Why There Were no Eunuchs in Japan 169

APPENDIX II - Eunuch-like Men in Modern Times 173

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In this revealing and often shocking book, Professor Mitamura hides nothing, presenting the sordid and macasbre details of a political system built upon and glorifying human emasculation and degradation. The book traces the history eunuchism from its bvery early days until november 5, 1924. when the system was finally banned and hundreds of eunuchs, "crying pitifully in high-pitched feminine voices," were expelled from Tzu Chin (Guzheng) Palace, thus ending a system that had endured over 2,000 years and through 25 dynasties.