Chinese Eunuchs: The Structure of Intimate Politics

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.